Halfway point credentials

[misspenn2519]

Hello! i'm on the camino now and am hearing conflicting stories about if / where halfway point credentials are issued on the official camino de santiago (route frances). are this still possible? if so, where how?

Also, I'm continuing on to Finisterre and I just read there's another halfway credential for Santiago-Finisterre-Muxia and i can't get the finisterre stamp if i don't get one in Lires. is that true?

any advice is appreciated!
Buen Camino !

 

[Bradypus]

I think you may be confusing credencial, Compostela, and other certificates. The credencial is the "pilgrim passport" on which you receive stamps along your journey and which gives access to pilgrim albergues. The Compostela certificate is only issued on arrival in Santiago if you meet the conditions of distance, route, number of stamps and so on. There are other certificates issued in Sahagun (midway on the Frances if you start from Roncesvalles) and in Fisterra.

 

[henrythedog]

The certificate available in Sahagun is unashamedly just a souvenir.

That didn’t stop me collecting one once.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Hello! i'm on the camino now and am hearing conflicting stories about if / where halfway point credentials are issued on the official camino de santiago (route frances). are this still possible? if so, where how?

This was the last report to the forum (April and detailed):

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/this-is-where-to-obtain-halfway-certificate-in-sahagun.82023/#post-1244642

 

[EWhite]

Hello! i'm on the camino now and am hearing conflicting stories about if / where halfway point credentials are issued on the official camino de santiago (route frances). are this still possible? if so, where how?

Also, I'm continuing on to Finisterre and I just read there's another halfway credential for Santiago-Finisterre-Muxia and i can't get the finisterre stamp if i don't get one in Lires. is that true?

any advice is appreciated!
Buen Camino !

You can’t get a Compostela if you return to Santiago from Fisterra and Muxia (it’s 100 km) without a stamp from Lires. If you’re not returning to SdC then a stamp in Lires doesn’t matter.

 

[Pafayac]

In Sahagún, you can get a half-compostela (nice souvenir) in the church of the Virgen Peregrina:

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There, you can also find the model of Sahagún Tourism Office stamp...
Before walking to the ocean, my advice is to get in Santiago the special credential for this way (nice drawings).
Then, in the Tourism Office of Fisterra, you can get a Fisterrana. Idem for getting a Muxiana in Muxia.