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Museum of Pilgrimages and Santiago

Museo das Peregrinacións e de Santiago · Museo de las Peregrinaciones y de Santiago

The Museum of Pilgrimages and Santiago is a museum in Santiago de Compostela about the city and the pilgrimage to Santiago, with its exhibition building on Praza das Praterías.

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The Museum of Pilgrimages and Santiago (Museo das Peregrinacións e de Santiago) is a museum in Santiago de Compostela devoted to the city and to the pilgrimage that shaped it. Its history page says it was created at the end of 1951 by the central and local administrations, that its management passed to the Xunta de Galicia in 1995, and that it opened to the public permanently in February 1996. The same page says a new seat opened in November 2015 on Praza das Praterías, in the building used until 2004 by the Banco de España, near the cathedral's Praterías entrance. The museum's information page gives Praza das Praterías 2 as its exhibition seat and the Casa Gótica on Rúa de San Miguel as its administrative seat; this record's pin is the Praterías exhibition building.

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Santiago de Compostela

Santiago de Compostela is the capital of Galicia, whose cathedral by tradition holds the relics of Saint James the Apostle and whose historic centre is a UNESCO World Heritage site, according to Spain's national tourism board. XTOUR maps the cathedral and the Museum of Pilgrimages and Santiago in the city, and keeps the Camino de Santiago routes apart because they are not a place.

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