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The Civil Guard intervened twice this week to bring order (http://www.lavozdegalicia.es)
On 10th August at 13.00 the sports pavilion at O Pino had already exceeded the number of pilgrims it is allowed to hold. However, despite the ban many hikers tried to sneak into the building to spend the night, forcing the person who controlled the entrance to the building to call the Guardia Civil. "
This is not the first time that they have had to resort to the Guardia Civil. On Thursday a group of twelve people from Barcelona tried to enter the building, refusing to pay the two euro entrance fee, claiming that the conditions in the municipal building were inadequate.
The City Council of O Pino, as a reinforcement to shelters and other private accommodation. provides 300 places for pilgrims to stay overnight in their sports hall. It is a service exclusively for groups at a cost of two euros entitling roof and hot water.
As in O Pino, all municipalities through which passes the road from Cebreiro offer this possibility to the walkers, with an average cost of between two and three euros (in O Pino, two).
In the months of July and August the town hosts an average of 400 people a day between halls and private accommodation. But there are days when this figure is far outweighed, coming, as it did yesterday, to 1,000 overnight stays between public and private services.
AND:
The pilgrim shelter located in Pedrouza/Arca, the City Council of O Pino, opens at one o'clock to house every night 126 pilgrims. For five euros hikers are entitled to hot water and a bed. But getting one of these places is not easy, as there are long queues from early morning. The first pilgrims start arriving at nine o'clock in the queue, where they face other four hours of patient waiting. The route is thus transformed into a struggle for beds.
In the last three days a lot of walkers have come to O Pino Concello , reaching a thousand on Friday night. The offer is wide, from the public shelter to several private hostels and more than a dozen pension, besides the municipal pavilion. But it is not enough and complaints from outside the hostel until the end of the queue are widespread, where many say it's not the first time they've run out of place to sleep along its route.
The housing problems occur not only in the City Council of O Pino, if not that, according to the testimony of the pilgrims, succeed in each of the localities through which the French Way crosses the border from Galicia, in Sarria, until Santiago doors.
On 10th August at 13.00 the sports pavilion at O Pino had already exceeded the number of pilgrims it is allowed to hold. However, despite the ban many hikers tried to sneak into the building to spend the night, forcing the person who controlled the entrance to the building to call the Guardia Civil. "
This is not the first time that they have had to resort to the Guardia Civil. On Thursday a group of twelve people from Barcelona tried to enter the building, refusing to pay the two euro entrance fee, claiming that the conditions in the municipal building were inadequate.
The City Council of O Pino, as a reinforcement to shelters and other private accommodation. provides 300 places for pilgrims to stay overnight in their sports hall. It is a service exclusively for groups at a cost of two euros entitling roof and hot water.
As in O Pino, all municipalities through which passes the road from Cebreiro offer this possibility to the walkers, with an average cost of between two and three euros (in O Pino, two).
In the months of July and August the town hosts an average of 400 people a day between halls and private accommodation. But there are days when this figure is far outweighed, coming, as it did yesterday, to 1,000 overnight stays between public and private services.
AND:
The pilgrim shelter located in Pedrouza/Arca, the City Council of O Pino, opens at one o'clock to house every night 126 pilgrims. For five euros hikers are entitled to hot water and a bed. But getting one of these places is not easy, as there are long queues from early morning. The first pilgrims start arriving at nine o'clock in the queue, where they face other four hours of patient waiting. The route is thus transformed into a struggle for beds.
In the last three days a lot of walkers have come to O Pino Concello , reaching a thousand on Friday night. The offer is wide, from the public shelter to several private hostels and more than a dozen pension, besides the municipal pavilion. But it is not enough and complaints from outside the hostel until the end of the queue are widespread, where many say it's not the first time they've run out of place to sleep along its route.
The housing problems occur not only in the City Council of O Pino, if not that, according to the testimony of the pilgrims, succeed in each of the localities through which the French Way crosses the border from Galicia, in Sarria, until Santiago doors.