Camino Portugués
11.5 km, 57 m up and 241 m down, through 3 places, 1 of which has somewhere to sleep. Where you stop is up to you.
Every place on the path in order, with the distance from Malaposta. 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.
In Malaposta you walk along the modern Rua Estrada Romana — named because this stretch was indeed a Roman road. Where the pavement ends, a section of the original road still exists. It's beautiful, though the Romans have…
One bar along this residential strip. The camino passes straight through and eventually rejoins the N1 in Vergada.
The village proper is off the camino — included here for the accommodation available at the Bombeiros (fire station, which doubles as a lodging option in several Portuguese towns). The Igreja de Lourosa, in the village, …
Vergada is strung along the N1. On its way out of town, the camino crosses the N1 at a 4-way intersection. The stretch ahead has a few more quiet parts and passes underneath the A1 superhighway before arriving in Grijó.
The natural setting around Grijo is the prettiest for a long stretch — high walls, shade, and a welcome sense of enclosure after so much exposed road walking. The Mosteiro de Grijo, a former Augustinian monastery dating …
Distance, climb and descent are measured along the GPS track for this camino — 89 recorded points across this span, the same track the app carries. The town-to-town figures in my data put it at 11.4 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.