Compostela
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Then, at the end of May, after 26 days and 500 miles of walking, I reached Santiago de Compostela.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The crash late on Sunday is Spain's deadliest train accident since 2013, when 80 people died after a train veered off a curved section of track outside the northwestern city of Santiago de Compostela.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
And it’s nothing new — think the Christian pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela, Jerusalem and Rome of the Middle Ages, for starters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
Never mind being able to hear the noise from one end of Glasgow to the other, you could have heard the racket from Santiago de Compostela to Seville.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2023
We remembered that queen of Portugal who made the pilgrimage to Compostela on foot, begging her way.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
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