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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
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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