The ship docked at La Coruna, Spain. Not a significant place on the tourist map it seems, but it’s near Santiago.

Santiago is the third most visited destination for religious pilgrims in the world. (These ones Catholic). It’s the end of the Camino, that starts in many places, as far away as 800km along the Pyrenees in France.

Legend has it that St James the Greater was buried here. His remains now under the alter of the great cathedral.

Here’s one of the hundreds(?) of statues and images of him on our walk to the main square … past a 17th Century(!) medical school.

In the main square, the seat of Government for the state of Galacia …

… and an old university …

… an old hospital (now a hotel where we had lunch) …

… and the cathedral …

all face each other.

We lined up and went inside, past the shell symbol of the pilgrims …

… a mass in progress …

… one of many side chapels …

… a lifesize gold and gemstone statue of St James over the main alter …

… and his remains in a solid silver casket under it …

We came out again …

… and walked the old town … just fabulous.

Many “sidewalks” were covered …

I snacked on an excellent Spanish sausage …

… and we had an absolute banquet for lunch here …

The main square is where the (mostly young) pilgims gather at the end of their walk …

These three showed us their offical pilgimage route and stamps.

They had “only” managed 102km on their 4 day walk.