Camino Inglés
10.4 km, 259 m up and 150 m down, through 3 places. Where you stop is up to you.
Every place on the path in order, with the distance from O Burgo. 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.
After crossing the bridge, a steep climb on pavement takes you up through Culleredo and into the municipality of Cambre. The path crosses the medieval Ponte da Xira over the Río Valiñas, then continues climbing through Sigrás, Ancéis, and on into Carral municipality. The terrain transitions from suburban to rural. Fountains are few — the next reliable water is at the fountain in Ancéis.
A small parish with more pilgrim history than you'd expect. The Igrexa de Santiago de Sigrás is a 12th-century Romanesque church with a 17th-century seated Santiago figure holding a pilgrim's staff. The current rectory s…
The Fonte de San Antonio, opposite the Pazo de Drozo, has a working fountain — refill your water here. A few benches and an information board make it a good rest spot. The Pazo de Drozo is a late 16th-century manor house…
A small hamlet at the entrance to Carral municipality. The Panadería Da Cunha is the first real refreshment stop since O Burgo — famous locally for its empanadas and traditional Carral bread. If it's open, stop. There's …
From Sergude the terrain becomes seriously rural. The next 13 km to Hospital de Bruma include the hardest climb on the entire Camino Inglés — a sustained ascent of nearly 6 km to the Alto de Peito. The views from the top take in A Coruña, Ferrol, and the coast. After the summit, the path descends through forest and scattered hamlets to Bruma. Carry food and water — services are effectively nonexistent.
Distance, climb and descent are measured along the GPS track for this camino — 256 recorded points across this span, the same track the app carries. The town-to-town figures in my data put it at 10.3 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.