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8 Days - 7 Nights
Self-guided
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March to November
The Way of Saint James offers an original and different way of sightseeing in northern Spain. You’ll discover monuments, charming towns and villages and spectacular natural attractions. In this tour you will be walking through traditional Galician villages, beautiful oak woodlands, magical valleys and perfumed forests.
Some people are inspired by an interest in culture, others do it out of a spiritual conviction, yet others love the chance of adventure or approach it as a personal challenge… but whatever your reason, the Way to Santiago will be unforgettable!
If you wish to get your Compostela, or certificate from the Camino office in Santiago, you need walking at least 100 kilometers. The most convenient point to begin from to do this is Valença do Minho.
Explore the region of Galicia, famous for its people, rich patrimony, great food and its wines.
Meeting with a member of our team for a briefing and to collect the documentation.
→ Accommodation: Hotel 3*
→ Meals: Breakfast
→ (20 km / 12,4 Miles)
Cross Rio Minho and enter Spain. Walk through the streets of the medieval town of Tui until reach its famous Cathedral. From Tui follow the Valley of the River Louro until reach the city of O Porriño.
→ Accommodation: Hotel 2*
→ Meals: Breakfast
→ (22 km / 13,6 Miles)
In this stage you will pass close to the Pazo de Mós, Santiaguiño de Antas and Chan das Pipas before reach the centre of Redondela. Continue to Outeiro de Penas, and then finally you reach Arcade.
→ Accommodation: Hotel 2*
→ Meals: Breakfast
→ (13 km / 8 Miles)
Leave Arcade in direction to Pontesampayo and then to one of the most beautiful stretches of the Caminho: the very old by-ways which climb up the slope of Canicouva until Cacheiro, where the track widens again, until reach Pontevedra.
→ Accommodation: Hotel 3*
→ Meals: Breakfast
→ (22 km / 13,6 Miles)
Start this stage walking from the old city of Pontevedra to the millennial bridge, O Burgo, over the Lérez River. Continue along the beautiful Valley of the Gandra River until San Mauro and from there, until Caldas de Reis.
→ Accommodation: Hotel 2*
→ Meals: Breakfast
→ (18 km / 11,2 Miles)
Leave Caldas de Reis along some enchanting stretches, following a path that leads you to the church of Santa Maria de Carracedo and then you will cross a particularly luxuriant landscape along the side of the Valga River until Padron.
→ Accommodation: Hotel 3*
→ Meals: Breakfast
→ (25 km / 15,5 Miles)
The last stage starts leaving Padron through Galician villages until the magnificent sanctuary of Nossa Señora da Escravitute. Continue for Teo and following broad streets and narrower shortcuts you finally arrive to the suburbs of Santiago that lead us through a labyrinth of streets to the Cathedral of Santiago.
→ Accommodation: Hotel 3*
→ Meals: Breakfast
→ After breakfast: end of our services
* For an easy walk we can split some of the long walking days in two - contact us.
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