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The pilgrims jam during this month the shelters of Burgos
17.08.09 -
ROSALÍA SANTAOLALLA
Way without crisis
The pilgrims jam during this month the shelters of Burgos
The municipal shelter of the street Fernán González, in the of Burgos capital, has pulverized marks during this month of August. It has a maximum capacity for 160 people and during several days, the Friendly association of the Way of Santiago, manages that it, has had to ask for the opening of the polideportivo of San Amaro to lodge to about 20 or 30 pilgrims to which it could not give bed in his facilities.
It is almost impossible to calculate the number of travellers who enter the of Burgos capital their route towards Santiago de Compostela. Besides the municipal shelter that manages the association, in Burgos other two facilities of this type exist - the shelters of Emaús and the Divine Shepherd and tens of inns and pensions that also usually welcome an important number of pilgrims during this time of the year. “For the city it is an important source of income”, recognizes Jesus Aguirre, the president of Friendly the of Burgos association of the Way of Santiago. Aguirre confirms that “the crisis does not make notch” in the jacobea route and remembers that the great affluence of pilgrims by all the route “results in benefit” of all the localities that crosses the Way. Because, in his opinion, although the peregrination to Santiago can seem a cheap form to make tourism in the days of crisis, “the pilgrim, if the city it likes, returns like tourist, is there where income become”.
Between the reasons for which the number of pilgrims is being east superior year that in the previous ones, could be, according to the association that Jesus presides over Aguirre, the fact that the next year is Year Santo Jacobeo, reason why many travellers would have preferred to avoid possible agglomerations in the route. Italian, American, Canadian and Korean Germans, French, - these last ones, relatively recent pilgrims win these days the shelter of Burgos, next to Catalan, Basque, Valencian and Madrilenian travellers. They do “It for several reasons. The main one is spiritual, go to the tomb of the apostle. But also from a patrimonial, cultural, landscaping point of view”, it details.
Jacobea Ruja
The municipal shelter of Burgos is located in the historical House of the Bucket, in the street Fernán González, right in the center of the of Burgos capital and on the own jacobea route. It works there for a year, when it replaced “the provisional” shelter that during years was placed in modules prefabricated in the park of the Parral. The new facilities, constructed by the City council with an important financing of cultural 1% of the Ministry of Public Works and the Economy, are to a passage of the Cathedral and have allowed the pilgrims to know the places most centric the of Burgos capital.
To this knowledge of the city also it has contributed the agreement signed between the Friendly association of the Way of Santiago de Burgos and the association of Official Tour guides, who develop routes guided by downtown, to that go about 30 users of the shelter every day. “Full success”, according to Aguirre, to that Box of Burgos in the last weeks, that the route completes, for the pilgrims that still conserve forces, with a gratuitous visit has been united to the CAB (Center of Art Box of Burgos).
