A correct signposting on the Route becomes essential because its original course is being altered by the construction of roads, land consolidations and the opening of motorways. In order to avoid misunderstandings, many people have decided to signpost the different routes. For more than 30 years the Associations of Friends of the Route have been trying to bring back the important role the route played in the Middle Ages. 

The routes are made by people as they walk, and they finally dissapear when they are abandoned. This is what happened with the Route to Santiago, which has been recovered in the 1990´s. Millions of pilgrims have rediscovered it to travel to Compostela following the stars, and receive the Apostle´s blessing.