Santiago de Compostela

British  

/ de kɔmpɔsˈtela /

noun

1. Latin name: Campus Stellae.  a city in NW Spain: place of pilgrimage since the 9th century and the most visited (after Jerusalem and Rome) in the Middle Ages; cathedral built over the tomb of the apostle St James. Pop: 92 339 (2003 est)

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Santiago de Compostela

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

We arrived in Spain in late July and walked through a scorching August to Santiago de Compostela.

From New York Times ● May 17, 2023

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

Santiago de Compostela, for example, is a very nest of religious foundations.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates