Camino Portugués
9.1 km, 164 m up and 149 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 Oliveira de Azeméis. 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.
The road between here and the Roman Ponte do Salgueiro is nothing short of boring. It is continuous development of both industry and housing.
A hamlet on the road between Oliveira de Azemeis and Puente do Salgueiro. No services.
From this point, nearly continuous development stretches all the way to Porto and 20 km beyond. There are exceptions — quiet stretches through forest or farmland — but those are brief. Settle in for urban and suburban wa…
A village between Puente do Salgueiro and Sao Joao da Madeira. The Mosteiro de Cucujaes, a former Benedictine monastery dating to the 10th century, is worth a glance if you pass it.
Leave town from the Praça Luís Ribeiro along the Rua Antonio Jose de Oliveira Junior.It is more suburban walking from here to Arrifana.
Distance, climb and descent are measured along the GPS track for this camino — 75 recorded points across this span, the same track the app carries. The town-to-town figures in my data put it at 9.2 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.