"One Compostela per minute" at the pilgrims office on friday

[ivar]

Yes there are a lot of pilgrims in town these days. EL Correo Gallego reports that on Friday they handed out one compostela per minute... more here:

Read the article (automatically translated by Google) here.

 

[sillydoll]

There is another item in that report that states that 8685 Compostelas were issued during the first quarter - 40% more than in 2004 Holy Year and 65 percentage higher than the figures recorded in 2009. If the trend continues numbers will 'break the roof' of the 179,944 users recorded in the previous Jubilee Year.