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Quiz No.3!

jungleboy

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Some in the past; more in the future!
A couple of weeks ago while doing some research for this Holy Year article (spoiler alert: it pretty much gives away the answers but not the order), I was looking at the popularity of various routes and that seems like a good topic for our next quiz!

According to the 2019 pilgrim's office statistics, the most popular route (among those who received compostelas) was the Camino Francés (55%), followed by the Camino Portugués Central (21%).

Edit: The Portuguese Coastal is considered separate from the Central for the purpose of these statistics.

There was quite a drop-off after that but the next four caminos were all very close in terms of popularity. I suspect many of you can list these four caminos, but can you guess all four in order of popularity from No. 3 to No. 6?

Answer tomorrow ... if @Kathar1na can hold out that long and if @SabineP doesn't already have it right within a few minutes!
 
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If I remember correctly the Camino Portugues da Costa is considered as an " official " route for the Compostela so I would put this one in third place seeing the popularity also here on the forum?
4. Norte
5. Primitivo
6.Ingles...because it is my personal small but perfect Camino! :cool:
 
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If I remember correctly the Camino Portugues da Costa is considered as an " official " route for the Compostela so I would put this one in third place seeing the popularity also here on the forum?
I tried to sneakily suggest that without completely giving it away by referring to the central route in the OP but in the interests of transparency, yes, the Portuguese Coastal is considered separate. I'll edit the OP. @peregrina2000 and @Richmond Gardner can have a mulligan if they like!
 
I tried to sneakily suggest that without completely giving it away by referring to the central route in the OP but in the interests of transparency, yes, the Portuguese Coastal is considered separate. I'll edit the OP. @peregrina2000 and @Richmond Gardner can have a mulligan if they like!


Learned a new word : mulligan! The educational surplus of this forum...cheers!!!
 
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Can I jump in with the least popular ones that I've walked?

Camino Zamorano Portugués, about 50 of us walked it last year
Camino Torres (Salamanca through Portugal): I was the 25th person to sleep in its albergue in Alba de Yeltes in 2017
Camino Castellano-Aragonés: I was the 7th person to sleep in its albergue in San Leonardo (Soria province) last October
Vía Serrana from Gibraltar to Seville: three of us slept in the only public albergue there in 2017
Villajoyosa variant of the Ruta de la Lana: I was the 5th person that year to sleep in the albergue in Torremanzanas (Alicante province) in 2018
Fray José-Alfredo, the brother hospitalero at Santo Domingo de Silos' albergue (where I've slept in 2015, 2018 and 2019), told me that numbers are constant at about 100 of us a year.
 
My stab at a guess, without looking at previous answers.

Ingles, Northern, Portuguese Coastal, the one that starts from Ourense (sorry, don't know the name offhand 🥴).
 
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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.
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My "educated guess" was based on my experience volunteering in the Pilgrim Office last Fall. Hope that doesn't take anything away from my win.
Thanks for the fun quiz!
Ultreia!
 
When referring to the two Portuguese routes, are there any statistics detailing how many walked from Lisbon to Porto? Are the stats above just from Porto or all encompassing?
 
When referring to the two Portuguese routes, are there any statistics detailing how many walked from Lisbon to Porto? Are the stats above just from Porto or all encompassing?

There is a separate section of the statistics bulletin detailing starting points. So in 2019, starting points in terms of percentage of the overall pilgrims (who received compostelas) on all routes were:

Porto (Central) - 8.03%
Porto (Coastal) - 3.29%
Lisbon - 0.76%

It doesn't appear as though the route taken from Porto is considered if the starting point is Lisbon.
 
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El País must be reading the forum, because they have just published an article listing the top ten in terms of popoularity.

It surely is a sign of the times that mainstream press is publishing lists of the top ten caminos — back when the forum started there was probably no awareness beyond the Francés, Portugués and Norte!

Francés
Portugués
Portugués por la Costa
Norte
Inglés
Primitivo
Plata/Sanabrés
Fisterra/Muxia
Invierno
Aragonés

 
El País must be reading the forum, because they have just published an article listing the top ten in terms of popoularity.

It surely is a sign of the times that mainstream press is publishing lists of the top ten caminos — back when the forum started there was probably no awareness beyond the Francés, Portugués and Norte!

Francés
Portugués
Portugués por la Costa
Norte
Inglés
Primitivo
Plata/Sanabrés
Fisterra/Muxia
Invierno
Aragonés



Journalist is Paco Nadal.Also author of some decent Camino guides IMHO. On my first Camino ( Francès ) I had his translated book with me.

 

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