Camino Portugués
12.5 km, 267 m up and 91 m down, through 2 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 Vila de Cucujães. 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.
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.
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…
Distance, climb and descent are measured along the GPS track for this camino — 91 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.