membership and portugal route

[sally mason]

Hi,
just wondering if anyone can give me some tips re the portugal route and the
route through Andalucia in Spain,,going there maybe in May.  Also does
anyone know about getting a membership card or something so that while
making the pilgrim you can stay in affiliated hostels for free? a friend
told me about this, any help would be great
thanks heaps.






>From: Rosina Lila <BlaroliaAOL.COM>
>Reply-To: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage <GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU>
>To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
>Subject: Re: 2002 Pilgrims
>Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:09:12 EST
>
>Hello you all,
>The Compostela magazine shows 102 different points of pilgrimage departure;
>most are, naturally, in Spain itself. But many pilgrims are listed as
>commencing the pilgrimage in other countries.
>
>The largest number of pilgrims, 9,311, started out in Sarria which is the
>most convenient point for those pilgrims who only walk the last 100
>kilometers.  The other most popular points were, in descending order:
>Roncesvalles with 7,545; Saint Jean Pied de Port with 6,974, O Cebreito
>with
>5,885; Ponferrada with 5,628; Leon with 5,120; Astorga with 4,382; Pamplona
>with 2,384; and Burgos with 2,270.
>Besides those beginning the pilgrimage at SJPP,  1,695 pilgrims are listed
>as
>starting out in Le Puy, 29 in Paris and 1,132 in other places in France.
>492 pilgrims started out in Holland, 367 in Germany, 273 in Belgium, and 27
>in Italy.
>Three pilgrims began the pilgrimage in Poland,  three in Jordan,  one in
>Luxembourg, one in Hungary and one in Lithuania.
>If you want specific information about a town or country not listed above,
>let me know.
>It is worthy of notice, to me, to know that 762 pilgrims commenced their
>pilgrimage in Somport, 271 in Jaca and 467 in Sevilla.  -Both the Aragonese
>part of the French Way and the Silver Way are longer that the French Way-
>Again, let me know if there is anything else you'd like to know about the
>2002 pilgrims.
>Warm regards from a presently freezing New York City.
>Rosina


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