Camino Torres and the Pilgrim Office in Santiago

[David Tallan]

I went to pre-register for my Compostela and Distance Certificate and wasn't sure what to do.

Camino Torres wasn't listed so I went to "Otros Caninos" but Salamanca or its region were not listed among the options.

What has other people's experience been?

 

[pelerine]

When I walked the Torres in 2017 the person who handled my compostela did not know about it, but found it on their map and one of his colleagues had heard about it. Now since it joins the central Portuguese in Ponte de Lima maybe they just accepted the Portuguese last 100 km and not the coinciding of the Torres. I cannot look at my compostela now - don’t know which camino is mentioned. Surely not all of them if you have walked a whole string of them.

Probably their online system has not been updated for this.

Any of the forum members who regularly volunteer in the Pilgrims Office can find out?

 

[RodlaRob]

I have posted on the Forum before copy of my 2016 Camino Torres compostela, as this topic has arisen before.

 

[Kathor1]

@David Tallan, there is an earlier thread about this topic:
- https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/compostela-for-camino-de-torres.73201/post-997288

It has a photo of a Distance Certificate with "Camino Torres" on it. Compostelas as such don't mention any specific Caminos so what you indicate in the online registration form is merely for the statistics.

The Distance Certificate shown in the thread is filled in by hand so this was done some time ago because nowadays Compostela and Distance Certificate are printed with name, date and other details filled in by the printer/computer system.

I think that nowadays you just enter something suitable in the online registration form and then let the staff at the desk know that you walked the Camino Torres and they can adjust things.

It was interesting to see that new Caminos have been added to the online registration that I had not seen before, for example a "Camino de los Américas" with starting points like Cathedral Basilica of St Augustine or Mickler's Landing and a few other starting points with names I had not even been aware of. But, as you observed, no Camino Torres.

 

[RodlaRob]

Yes, @Kathor1 it was obviously hand written in 2016!
Computer now says "there is no Camino Torres".
Hopefully Computer in the Pilgrims office will be more compassionate about this Camino
soon