Happy and blessed feast of Santiago. It has got to be a zoo today in Santiago de Compostela, what with all the pilgrims arriving today. It's not a jubilee year (when the feast day of Saint James lands on a Sunday, as in 2004) but I am sure the city is crazy. So, in spirit with all the pilgrims, a blessed feast day.
On this feast day, they will swing the botifumeiro, a humungous incense pot, that goes in a 180 degree-arc way over people's heads. It swings in the north-south transept of the church. It's an impressive thing, taking eight men to yank the thick rope on which the incense thurible hangs. I was utterly mesmerised when I saw it three years ago.
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