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What is the credential of the pilgrims?

What is the credential of the pilgrims?
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What is the credential?

The credential is a type of passports that accredits you such as a pilgrim and accredits the places where you have gone during The Way of St James.

Who can request it?

You can request the credential if you have done the Way of St James continuous without a motor vehicle.

Which is its useful?

The credential, is useful for identify you such a pilgrim and to accede to the hostels or accommodations to pilgrims.
Also it is useful to obtain discounts in museums, monasteries and some leisure centre.

Where can I achieve?

You can achieve the credential in some associations of friends of the Way of St James, and in some parish and hostels in the Way too.
You can request in some association of friends of the Way with an one previous month. Only you need your identify document or your passport.

If you don’t achieve before start the Way, it isn’t bad, because you can achieve it in the first parish, churches or pilgrims office. If you don’t achieve it in the Way you can use your diary to the people put the stamp each day.

How do use it?

In the place where you start the Way, the people certificate the day and the way that you will do the Way of St James (on foot, by bike, by horse). And in the Way, you must stamp in hostels, churches, town halls…

It is tradition to give a little donation when you obtain the stamp.

Requirement to achieve the Compostela.

The credential is requirement to achieve the Compostela in Santiago de Compostela. If you are interested in receive la Compostela, you must present your credential when you arrive to the office of pilgrims in Santiago that is placed near the Cathedral.

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