The overcrowding and the inconvenience caused by incivil acts of outsiders are the two causes that serve as breeding ground for tourism phobia Y Santiago de Compostela is not an exception. hordes of young people who they sing and shout through the narrow streets of the historic center regardless of the time, pilgrims who they fill with their backpacks a square of the Obradoiro that they use as their particular field for sporting events, improvised snacks that litter the public road with rubbish and even horses that defecate next to buildings of heritage value. These are just a few examples of what the residents of the Galician capital have to put up with these dayswho have verified how the arrival of the nearly 13,000 participants in the European Youth Pilgrimage that have arrived in the city have collapsed some spaces that, with the Holy Year and the recovery of tourism, were already too crowded.
The supposed faith that moves the young pilgrims who arrive in Santiago does not seem to be accompanied, at least in some cases, by a civic attitude, and it is that among Compostela there is no shortage of those who compare these religious tourists to the fearsome hooligans english “If in the images of the last days in Compostela we change the pilgrims for English people going to a game, we have hours of footage in the mornings talking about hooliganism,” commented the Twitter user Martin Gomez (@Margoni81) about what is happening in the Galician capital.
the baroque (@elbarroquista), art historian and one of the most active tweeters when it comes to denouncing the problems caused by uncivil pilgrims, regrets that Santiago de Compostela “already has its balcony” thanks to the Jacobean tourists who, as a way of celebrating their arrival at the cathedral, accumulate their backpacks on the floor of the Plaza del Obradoiro and then jump on them.
“This is what people who live in Compostela have to live with on a daily basis. They represent the opposite of the values of the Way and of the pilgrims themselves»collects about the causes of the outbreak of tourism phobia in Santiago a publication of the Twitter account of PrideGalego (@OrgulloGalegoGZ), who adds that the fact that tourism leaves money should not serve as a justification for allowing visitors everything.
Outbreak of tourism phobia in Santiago due to the uncivic attitude of pilgrims