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OK I am now the full bottle on the Botafumeiro thanks to all the replies but IF I make it to Santiago as I hope I really would like to climb those steps, enter through those huge doors and gaze upon the Portico of Glory as our heroes did in The Way, but it seems that route has now been closed...
In The Way the Botafumiero was my highlight but I now read it only gets swung on special holy days. Is that true and I have plan my whole pilgrim trip around one of those days?
These are the words asked of the pilgrims in The Way as they apply for their Compostela and other variations are
"what was the reason for having done this pilgrimage?"
"I mean did you have sort of religious or (indistinct) motivation?"
I am curious as to if that was one more case of artistic...
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