The municipal hostel of the Friends of the Camino de Santiago by Estella-Lizarra It has started its activity after the Christmas break and the new year has begun with a “drip” of pilgrims who decided to undertake this trip in the middle of winter. This is how they have arrived packed to the Rúa street in the city of Ega where the hospitaleros are waiting for them. John Nazareno and Mayra Murillo. “Now they barely make it to the shelter between five or ten a day,” he said. Maor to complement the heating of water in showers at times of maximum occupancy, which will improve the current system that works with propane bottles.”
Origin of the pilgrims who arrive at Tierra EstellaRegarding the origin of foreign pilgrims, Maxi Ruiz de Larramendi It was clear that a good part “come from Korea.” The second origin, which “is growing every year” is the USA. And it is no coincidence that the pilgrims from this country have grown since the visit to Estella last year by the association's board. American Pilgrims, which has more than 40,000 associates of USA and Canada. “We have been invited to go to the Canadian city of vancouver where we will promote the Camino, Navarra and Estella." Likewise, the rest of the pilgrims come from countries such as "France, Germany, Italy and Brazil."
Ruiz de Larramendi passionately defended the work of the Jacobean Route associations to “maintain the brand of the French Way. In Galicia they don't care because their policy is that the Camino always ends in Santiago, we fight for it to come from further away with all that this entails for territories like Navarra"
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