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  "summary": "The medieval pilgrimage network converging on the shrine of the Apostle James at Compostela, still walked in the hundreds of thousands each year, and in 1987 the first route declared a European Cultural Route by the Council of Europe. The cathedral's own Pilgrim's Office continues the certification tradition with the Compostela and the stamped credencial.",
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    "Why is the Camino called the first European Cultural Route?"
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      "text": "The pilgrimage remains a living institution administered at its destination by the cathedral of Santiago's Pilgrim's Office, which certifies completed pilgrimages with the Compostela upon presentation of the stamped credencial and records pilgrim statistics.",
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  "winning_edge": "Camino content online is travel marketing. This object states the two institutionally certified facts — the 1987 European primacy and the living certification system — and explicitly defers what it could not verify, which no travel page does.",
  "confidence": 0.8,
  "last_verified": "2026-08-08",
  "body": "Scope note: the UNESCO World Heritage inscription of the routes and\ncurrent pilgrim statistics are deliberately not claimed yet — the\nauthoritative pages (whc.unesco.org, the statistics dashboard) resist\nautomated verification, and this instance does not cite what it has\nnot checked. The two claims below carry what was verified today.\n",
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