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September 19, 2025

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

By TERESA MEDRANO
Associated Press

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Longtime residents have grown embittered by the overtourism transforming their community.

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (AP) — 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.


 
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