ABSTRACT
The heritage planning strategies and the interior rehabilitation plans allowed for the promotion of the historic-artistic heritage, encouraging residential rehabilitation, boosting the economic revitalisation and improving walkability for the pilgrims, with the pedestrianisation of major public spaces. For some, the Camino remains essentially a religious route, but for most, spiritual motivations, the landscape, heritage or the simple desire to return to slow mobility constitute the fundamental drive to go to Santiago. At the end of the 1990s, the first comprehensive management examples of the Camino de Santiago arose with specific planning instruments, at both a regional and a local level. The LEADER initiative, the PRODER programme in its different periods, as well as other institutions of regional rural development have financed the initiatives of local groups. Institutions in power have supported the promotion and popularisation of the route to Santiago from its medieval beginnings.
