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The credencial

It is the paper that opens the hostels and the one you show at the Pilgrim Office. Stamp it from day one, and in the last hundred kilometres you need two stamps a day: that small print costs more Compostelas than anything else.

  • You get it from pilgrim associations, parishes and many hostels at the starting point. It usually costs a few euros.
  • It is stamped in hostels, churches, bars, town halls and even the odd kiosk. Almost anyone with a stamp will use it if you ask.
  • Stamp from the first day, even hundreds of kilometres before the stretch that counts: a gap at the start invalidates nothing, a gap at the end does.
  • Keep the bar or hostel receipt if one day you find nowhere to stamp. It is not a stamp, but it helps explain the gap.
  • The digital credencial on this site is for keeping count, not for claiming the Compostela: the Office asks for the paper one, with the ink.
  • If you lose it, the Camino is not over: buy another and explain at the Office. What cannot be fixed is arriving with the final days unstamped.

Where you need two stamps a day from

Everyone repeats "from Sarria", which is true for the Francés and for no other route. This is the town where the last 100 km begin on each one, counting 2 stamps a day.

  • Camino Francés From Sarria 114 km from Santiago · 5 stages
  • Camino del Norte From Baamonde 101 km from Santiago · 5 stages
  • Camino Primitivo From Lugo 101 km from Santiago · 5 stages
  • Camino Portugués From Tui 116 km from Santiago · 6 stages
  • Camino Inglés From Neda 105 km from Santiago · 5 stages
  • Vía de la Plata From Ourense 118 km from Santiago · 6 stages
  • Camino Finisterre-Muxía It does not go to Santiago: there is no Compostela to claim on this one.