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The ground behind you: what the walk into Pontecesures crosses, and where it could have been broken.
Tomorrow from Pontecesures
Nothing says you have to stop here, or there. These are simply the towns within a comfortable day's walk, so you can decide tonight.
| Town | km from here | Shared | Private | The walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aduana | 1.4 | — No | ✓ Yes | |
| Herbón | 2.7 | ✓ Yes | — No | |
| Padrón | 3.3 | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | |
| Iria Flavia | 4.2 | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | |
| Vilar | 8.6 | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | The walk from Pontecesures to Vilar |
| A Escravitude | 9.4 | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | The walk from Pontecesures to A Escravitude |
| Angueira de Suso | 11.3 | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | The walk from Pontecesures to Angueira de Suso |
| Picaraña | 12.4 | — No | ✓ Yes | The walk from Pontecesures to Picaraña |
| O Faramello | 13.7 | ✓ Yes | — No | The walk from Pontecesures to O Faramello |
| Rúa de Francos | 14.6 | — No | ✓ Yes | The walk from Pontecesures to Rúa de Francos |
| Osebe - Casalonga - Pedreira | 16.0 | ✓ Yes | — No | The walk from Pontecesures to Osebe - Casalonga - Pedreira |
| O Milladoiro | 20.5 | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | The walk from Pontecesures to O Milladoiro |
| Santiago de Compostela at the end of the Camino Portugues | 27.2 | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
Pontecesures occupies a pleasant riverside location that is somewhat spoiled by the factory across the Rio Ulla. The town is where the Variante Espiritual (by boat or by road from Vilanova de Arousa) rejoins the main camino.
The bridge here is where, according to the Translatio legend, the stone boat carrying Santiago's body arrived. The Roman bridge foundations survive beneath the current structure. The camino crosses the river into the approach to Padron.
The name Pontecesures derives from Pons Caesaris — Caesar's Bridge. The Roman crossing here connected the Ria de Arousa with the interior, and the site has been a point of arrival since antiquity. The Translatio tradition — the story that Santiago's body was brought by boat from Jaffa to this exact point — made Pontecesures one of the most symbolically important places on any Camino.
The arrows go under the road and over the bridge and across the Río Sar to Aduana. Here it runs all the way into Padrón.
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.
