During the Middle Ages Lugo, like Santiago de Compostela, was a center of pilgrimage, because the cathedral had the special privilege, it still retains today, of exposing to the public the consecrated host twenty-four hours a day.
Durante a Idade Media Lugo foi, ao igual que Santiago de Compostela, un centro de peregrinación, posto que a catedral contaba co especial privilexio, que aínda conserva, de expor ao público unha hostia consagrada as vinte e catro horas do día.