About 25,000 pilgrims have passed through Palencia doing the Camino de Santiago during these first seven months of 2019. Are the data recorded in the Pilgrim’s Office in Santiago de Compostela, which speaks of an increase of more than 10% with respect to last year.
However, from the Association of Friends of the Camino de Santiago ensure that the increase at the national level has not been noticed in the province of Palencia, as it ensures the president of the Association, Ángel Luis Barreda, which encrypts the loss of pilgrims to its step-by-Palencia on a 1 ,7% less than last year.
In the case of tourism data, from the Office of the Camino de Santiago, located in the Royal Monastery of San Zoilo of Carrión de los Condes, is has registered a decline considerable over the past year of 3%. Stands out the presence of locals, and a greater number of basques who are on the rise, according to Barreda.
In the opinion of the president of the Association of Friends of the Camino de Santiago there is a desestacionalidad, in which the great heats of the month of July, prejudicial to the arrival of tourists. The same thing happens with the pilgrims “for fear of the heat and the monotony of the landscape of the steppe castellana between Burgos and León, choose to take the bus in this stretch”, account Barreda.
In the same way, the Association urged the institutions to increase security of the roads of the villages, because many of the pilgrims use these roads at night to avoid the strong temperatures of the day. Also, they claim the lack of promotion of the Road by the Junta de Castilla y León.
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