Our final day's cycling sees the landscape flattening out as we travel between Arzua to the outskirts of Santiago itself, arriving eventually at Monte de Gozo, the final hill before the city and the point where the pilgrims could finally see the cathedral and the end of their journey. After contemplating what an emotive moment this must have been for the exhausted pilgrims, we cycle into the heart of the city itself and the gate of the cathedral - journey's end. After checking into our hotel the afternoon is left free to explore something of Santiago on foot, enjoying the relative peace of the late afternoon to visit the cathedral. The 12th century Baroque cathedral towers over the surrounding city streets and is one of Christendom's holiest of shrines, indeed after Jerusalem and Rome this city was the most important place of pilgrimage anywhere in the Christian world. The tomb of St. James is believed to lie in the crypt beneath the altar, part of the original 9th century foundations of an earlier basilica. The majesty of the Praza do Obradoiro, the immense square that stands before the cathedral was the focal point for the arriving pilgrims, a fitting setting for the end of their (and our) journey.