ABSTRACT
This chapter explains that during the Protestant Reformation and the religious wars, pilgrimages to Santiago continued to be made mainly by the French and Spanish, but that they stopped on several occasions until they eventually ceased definitively on account of the wars. With disentailment came yet another factor in the same period that may have slowed down the decline in pilgrimages by foreigners. As we know, it was the era of the cultural and aesthetic movement of Romanticism. The revival of pilgrimages to the Holy Land was initially and throughout the nineteenth century fairly minor, but it eventually became a more appealing destination for pilgrims than Santiago. The 1894 Spanish workers' pilgrimage became part of what was known, in the entire Roman Catholic world, as social Catholicism. The history of Franco's Spain is full of religious pilgrimages that undoubtedly had a political nuance but were also down to spontaneous, individual initiative.
