Camino Portugués
11.9 km, 105 m up and 110 m down, through 3 places. Where you stop is up to you.
Every place on the path in order, with the distance from The Central Route from Porto. 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 sprawl from Porto's centre runs all the way to Giao — 25 km of continuous urban development. This is more than enough walking on hard surfaces, and it's not uncommon for pilgrims to bypass the worst of it by taking t…
The split between the Central and Coastal (not litoral) routes occurs at the Chapel of the Ramada Alta, a small church roughly 1.5km from where the pedestrian zone ended. Walk around the church, keeping it on your left, and follow the road behind the church. At the fork, turn right. Street signs indicate that you have left Largo Ramada Alta and are now on Rua de Nove de Julio.The road ends at apartments, which you pass under. Cross the road and cross under the apartments opposite as well. Where you emerge from the second set of apartments, turn left.This road (still the Nove de Julio) merges with another. Keep going straight. Eventually, you will pass under the highway. From here there is nothing to do but keep on going straight. You will eventually pass under another highway, where the camino splits into two distinct options.
The Metro of Porto Line C (Linha da Maia) affords an option to walking the most durable part of the camino leaving Porto.
A hamlet in the suburban sprawl north of Porto. No services on the camino.
The Metro Line C stops here twice — first at the Araujo station, then at the Custio station, which is closer to the camino. This is the practical point to rejoin the route if you took the metro out of Porto.
Entering Moreira, turn right at the cemetery.The camino will take a right-left-right a short distance on, and the arrows are painted low on the curb. Whether you follow them, or you miss them, you will arrive at the main road. Turn right there. A Pingo Doce and a Lidl tell you that you are on the correct road.From here it is a straight road to the Zona Industrial of Maia. Turn left when you get there.
Distance, climb and descent are measured along the GPS track for this camino — 63 recorded points across this span, the same track the app carries. The town-to-town figures in my data put it at 13.1 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.