Camino Portugués
10.6 km, 62 m up and 33 m down, through 2 places, 2 of which have somewhere to sleep. Where you stop is up to you.
Every place on the path in order, with the distance from Fão. Most are too small to sleep in — a fountain, a chapel, a bar that may or may not be open — but they are what the day is actually made of.
Crossing the Rio Cávado from Fão to Esposende is done via bridge, take your time as the pedestrian section of the bridge is quite narrow. At the end of the bridge turn left, and at the next roundabout keep to your left into Esposende.
There are multiple ways through town but the easiest is along the pedestrian path near the sea. When it comes to an end follow the natural bend in the road to the right. From there the camino turns inland towards Marinhas.
The camino from Marinhas keeps away from the sea, and climbs gradually to offer an elevated view. The path is along paved back roads with little traffic. Eventually, beyond Belinho, the camino crosses descends to cross over the main road and joins a narrow forest path down to the Ponte do Sebastião.
Most services in Belinho are along the main road, the N13, but there's a small supermarket along the camino itself. The village sits on slightly elevated ground, and the walking ahead descends through forest to the Ponte…
Distance, climb and descent are measured along the GPS track for this camino — 290 recorded points across this span, the same track the app carries. The town-to-town figures in my data put it at 10.7 km.
Esta entidad ha sido beneficiaria de una ayuda del Programa de incentivos a la movilidad eficiente y sostenible (MOVES III), gestionado por la Xunta de Galicia a través del Instituto Enerxético de Galicia (INEGA) en el marco del Real Decreto 266/2021, y cofinanciada por la Unión Europea — NextGenerationEU, dentro del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia.