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How to get first stamp in Bilbao

DarrenCamino

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Camino Del Norte starting 18th May 2022
Sorry this might be a really silly question but I am unsure!

We have flown into Bilbao and booked a hotel for the first two nights and will start our Camino from here but won’t stay in an Albergue until Pobena after we start. So we can’t get a stamp at the albergue in Bilbao, can we go somewhere else I.e the cathedral when we do start our Camino for a stamp before then moving in to collect each day as normal?
 
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Sorry this might be a really silly question but I am unsure!

We have flown into Bilbao and booked a hotel for the first two nights and will start our Camino from here but won’t stay in an Albergue until Pobena after we start. So we can’t get a stamp at the albergue in Bilbao, can we go somewhere else I.e the cathedral when we do start our Camino for a stamp before then moving in to collect each day as normal?


Hi and welcome here!

Norte prilgrims will be able to confirm if the cathedral in Bilbao has a sello. I'm pretty sure though that there will be one.
If not , any stamp , be it from your hotel or the tourism office will do.
But a stamp from the cathedral as a first one is quite special.

Be aware that if you want to finish in Santiago de Compostela and you want to receive the Compostela that for the last hundred kilometers you will have to collect two stamps per day.

Happy preparations!
 
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A stamp of any church, postoffice ,restaurant ,hotel, boardinghouse , petrolstation etc .etc. Will do as long as you see where it was and the correct date is mentioned
 
The focus is on reducing the risk of failure through being well prepared. 2nd ed.
€2,-/day will present your project to thousands of visitors each day. All interested in the Camino de Santiago.
Or try the Tourist Office near the train station. They were very helpful.
 
A stamp of any church, postoffice ,restaurant ,hotel, boardinghouse , petrolstation etc .etc. Will do as long as you see where it was and the correct date is mentioned

On lesser walked Caminos I got sellos at the most unexpected places...😄
 
Sorry this might be a really silly question but I am unsure!

We have flown into Bilbao and booked a hotel for the first two nights and will start our Camino from here but won’t stay in an Albergue until Pobena after we start. So we can’t get a stamp at the albergue in Bilbao, can we go somewhere else I.e the cathedral when we do start our Camino for a stamp before then moving in to collect each day as normal?
Do not get the one from the Bilbao Guggenheim Museoa. It was so small and plain, it’s really pathetic from such a great institution.
 
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Sorry this might be a really silly question but I am unsure!

We have flown into Bilbao and booked a hotel for the first two nights and will start our Camino from here but won’t stay in an Albergue until Pobena after we start. So we can’t get a stamp at the albergue in Bilbao, can we go somewhere else I.e the cathedral when we do start our Camino for a stamp before then moving in to collect each day as normal?
 
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There should be no problem at the Cathedral
 
The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.
Hi and welcome here!

Norte prilgrims will be able to confirm if the cathedral in Bilbao has a sello. I'm pretty sure though that there will be one.
If not , any stamp , be it from your hotel or the tourism office will do.
But a stamp from the cathedral as a first one is quite special.

Be aware that if you want to finish in Santiago de Compostela and you want to receive the Compostela that for the last hundred kilometers you will have to collect two stamps per day.

Happy preparations!
Hi, by chance do you know if the cathedral in Bilbao would have the pilgram passport? I'm also starting from Bilbao in May. Thanks much, Michelle
 
Hi, by chance do you know if the cathedral in Bilbao would have the pilgram passport? I'm also starting from Bilbao in May. Thanks much, Michelle
Hi Michelle, I am also planning to walk this July and start from Gernika to Bilbao (to watch TDF) then head over to Irun to start proper. The research I've done is you can get a credential at Albergue de Peregrinos Santa Cruz de Begoña which is in Bilbao.
If you can get one at the cathedral that would certainly be more convenient.
 

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