Another very early start today for our flight to La Coruna and a visit to the Inditex Group, which owns Zara, Mango and several other labels. They are a huge employer in the region and the office & factory complex are vast. It was a comprehensive visit which started with a presentation from in a very comfortable corporate briefing room and continued with a tour through the offices, design studios, concept stores, pattern cutting area, pressing area, picking and packing, and final dispatch. It was fascinating to see the scale of it all but at the same time the three ambulance bays outside the factory sick bay were a sobering reminder that factory work can still be dangerous.
After a tapas lunch we travelled to Santiago de Compostela for a walking tour of the cathedral and old parts of town. The cathedral was incredibly ornate inside, with lots of gold leaf, and we walked down into the crypt to see the tomb of St James and his two disciples, then around the back of the statue of St James, behind the high altar, where it is traditional to hug or touch his back.
A sleepy bus ride to the airport then flight from Santiago de Compostela back to Madrid finished a very long but worthwhile day.
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