Santiago de Compostela · Zona Monumental · Spain

Casco Histórico De Santiago de Compostela

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easy

10/10

best: year-round, morning, evening

spiritual, emotional, historic

A local would say...

If you arrive having walked the Camino, this plaza will make you cry — it's been making pilgrims cry for 1300 years.

The arcaded stone streets of Santiago de Compostela are at their most beautiful in the rain, when the Old Town glistens. The final stop of the Camino de Santiago, the city's magnificent cathedral, churches, streets and plazas represent 1300 uninterrupted years as the goal of the great pilgrimage route. Today more than 250,000 Camino pilgrims and thousands of other visitors journey here each year — and arriving on foot after weeks of walking produces one of travel's most powerful moments.