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Scallop shell pilgrimage
Since the ninth century, pilgrims traveling to Santiago de Compostela in Spain have followed a route marked by scallop shells.
In the Middle Ages, shells of the species Pecten maximus were collected on the nearby Galician coast and sold to pilgrims who wore them as prized symbols of a successful pilgrimage.