Camino Portugués
18.9 km, 186 m up and 297 m down, through 5 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 São João da Madeira. 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.
Leave town from the Praça Luís Ribeiro along the Rua Antonio Jose de Oliveira Junior.It is more suburban walking from here to Arrifana.
From the church, the camino goes up the cobbled pedestrian path to the left. That path gives way to a road which can be followed through residential zones. In winding through these neighborhoods, you will cross over the N227 via a road bridge about 2.6km from Arrifana. From this crossing, there are another 3.2 to Malaposta. Along the way you follow the N1 for most of those kilometers, leaving it to your right at the start of Malaposta.
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 — 139 recorded points across this span, the same track the app carries. The town-to-town figures in my data put it at 18.7 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.