Museum of Pilgrimage

The Museum of Pilgrimage is housed in a seventeenth-century building that sits directly across from the cathedral’s silver-gilded facade. Its stone exterior features a prominent relief of Saint James as a pilgrim, complete with his staff and scallop shell. This institution preserves the artifacts left behind by centuries of travelers who walked across Europe to reach this city. One collection includes hundreds of metal badges that pilgrims once pinned to their cloaks as proof of their journey, each marking a different shrine they visited.