Santiago de Compostela offers a wide range of shopping establishments to provide for your every material fancy. Who says the pilgrimage is only for religious purposes? People also take the hike to the shops for their religious fervor on items and souvenirs galore.
The pilgrimage route is actually friendly to the businessmen who build their income literally on the streets. This shopping tradition of Compostela’s goes back over a thousand years. The tradition is about streets and squares such as Platerías, Acibechería and Caldeirería which has lines of shops and small workshops clustered together according to their type of activity. For instance, commercial spaces such as hat shops or wax and candle shops coexist with the modern spaces bearing avant garde designs and even made-to-measure tailor’s shops with only the latest fashion.
