Getting a Compostela on a Sunday

Glenshiro

Veteran Member

Time of past OR future Camino

Le Puy - SdC, Podiensis, Frances, Invierno 2012-23

• Apr 13, 2023

• #1

This may be a question no one can answer, but if I arrive in Santiago de Compostela about noon on a Sunday at the beginning of July, what are the chances of my getting a Compostela on the same day?

 

JabbaPapa

"True Pilgrim"

Time of past OR future Camino

100 characters or fewer : see signature details

• Apr 13, 2023

• #2

The Pilgrim Office is closed only on 25th December and 1st January -- and even then, you can get your Compostela in the Cathedral instead.

 

Bradypus

Migratory hermit

Donating Member

Time of past OR future Camino

Too many and too often!

• Apr 13, 2023

• #3

Very hard to tell. There was a time when queues were hours long in summer. The pilgrim office have introduced a new computer-based registration system and they are now printing Compostelas rather than writing them by hand. From the description that @t2andreo gave recently it sounds as though it may be much faster than in the past and long queues may be rarer in future.

Thread 'Very busy Semana Santa at the Santiago Pilgrim Office'

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/very-busy-semana-santa-at-the-santiago-pilgrim-office.79807/

 

henrythedog

Veteran Member

Donating Member

Time of past OR future Camino

Annually - often more - from 2014

• Apr 13, 2023

• #4

Glenshiro said:

This may be a question no one can answer, but if I arrive in Santiago de Compostela about noon on a Sunday at the beginning of July, what are the chances of my getting a Compostela on the same day?

Click to expand...

As you suggest, it’s impossible to predict. I did (unusually for me) get a compostela in early March and, although there was no queue whatsoever and I walked straight in to the desk, the process took about a minute. That was substantially faster than the last time I asked for a compostela in 2017.

I suppose the answer is ‘better than it used to be’

 

Glenshiro

Veteran Member

Time of past OR future Camino

Le Puy - SdC, Podiensis, Frances, Invierno 2012-23

• Apr 13, 2023

• #5

Thanks, all. Very useful.

 

M

Marla in CA

Active Member

Time of past OR future Camino

2019

• Apr 14, 2023

• #6

Glenshiro said:

This may be a question no one can answer, but if I arrive in Santiago de Compostela about noon on a Sunday at the beginning of July, what are the chances of my getting a Compostela on the same day?

Click to expand...

Just got mine on Easter Sunday!