With fifty days of the year remaining, pilgrim numbers look set to smash the previous record of 438,300 annual visitors.
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00:00 They come from France, Portugal and Spain, walking for many days along the ancient Camino
00:06 de Santiago routes, followed by Christian pilgrims for more than a thousand years.
00:13 And this year, the northwestern Spanish town of Santiago de Compostela, the alleged burial
00:18 site of St. James, is seeing record numbers of visitors.
00:23 With 50 days of the year remaining, pilgrim numbers look set to smash the previous record
00:28 of 438,000 annual visitors.
00:32 [Whoosh]