Pilgrims turn Spain's Santiago de Compostela into the world's latest overtourism flashpoint

  • Posted on September 14, 2025
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Pilgrims turn Spain's Santiago de Compostela into the world's latest overtourism flashpoint

While some Barcelona residents sought to repel a tsunami of tourists with plastic water pistols, a neighborhood association in Santiago de Compostela opted for a friendlier approach: a guide to good manners for visitors to their town, the endpoint of the Catholic world's most famous pilgrimage. It reminded tourists to keep noise down, respect traffic rules and use plastic protectors on hiking poles to avoid damaging the narrow cobblestone streets, among other things. Santiago's social media is awash with photos denouncing a lack of decorum.
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