government/business/church organization of Camino's

grayland said:

There are local Camino groups that work together to make efforts to maintain waymarking and various information.
It varies a great deal in the amount and quality of effort.
In addition many juntas and municipalities maintain albergues.
Some albergues are run by parish groups.
The Cathedral in Santiago issues the Compostella and sets the requirements of earning one.
Private albergues are just that..private and the owners set the rules.
There is no central authority,n which is why there are many differences across the width of Spain

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MTtoCamino said:

Can anyone explain how the Spanish government works with local groups to help maintain all the aspects of the various Camino routes?

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Is there a specific group within the Catholic faith that is assigned to this task?
I am very curious how all of this is organized & maintained.

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MTtoCamino said:

Yet the Spanish government still has the ability to set aside trails & improvements on them. Also such as the case of Korea making a request of new signs for safety the government can request of the locals to make changes but unless the government is willing to pay it is still left to the locals.

That definitely helps to determine what route to take as issues are revealed.
Keith

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Pabloke said:

I think I've read somewhere that they are working on standardizing signals in order to make it easier to recognize.

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Anemone del Camino said:

Yellow shells and arrows are pretty easy to understand.With the number of people on the trail at the moment, and especially in the past and still arriving in Santiago, I think the system is working.

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