Camino to Finisterre and Muxía
27.8 km, 380 m up and 656 m down, through 11 places, 7 of which have somewhere to sleep. Where you stop is up to you.
Every place on the path in order, with the distance from Logoso. 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.
Recently revived by a bar and albergue, Logoso is now a popular stop for those wanting to add or reduce a day of walking. The services are basic but welcome on this otherwise thin stretch.
The bar here is the last place to stock up on food and water before the paths diverge. If you're heading to Finisterre, there's a fountain between here and Cee but very little else. If you're heading to Muxia, Dumbria ha…
If you are continuing to Finisterre then the bar here is the last place to stock up on water or grab a sandwich. There is a fountain between here and Cee but very little else.
From the roundabout with the twin markers, take the paved road to the left and alongside the massive factory. The camino follows the road for 300m before leaving it to join a trail on your right. IF you are headed to Finisterra from this point, all the way to the first building in Cee, the camino remains well isolated from the road and any form of development beyond the two chapels mentioned below.
No fountain here -- just a chapel, a picnic area, and a quiet place to rest. The isolation from here to Cee is almost complete, and if the weather is clear the walking through this section is exceptional.
After the Capela de San Pedro the camino comes to a fork, with the yellow arrows taking you left and downhill. The option to the right follows a dead-end trail 50m to the Cruceiro de Armada, a point which marks the medieval pilgrim’s first glimpse of the sea.
The camino leaves this high plateau quite dramatically via a steep descent into Cee. Very steep. It starts off rocky but quickly turns into an asphalted road for the majority of the descent. The camino follows the road into Cee but has a very confusing set of arrows through town. They have been painted and painted over by competing albergues. No matter which way you choose you will get through town, but the shortest distance follows closest to the beach.
Cee, with its crescent beach, is where the camino first reaches the Atlantic. After the solitary highland walking, the salt air and sound of waves feel like an arrival -- even though Finisterre is still 15 km ahead. The…
Corcubion is a historic fishing port that wraps around a small bay, and it has more character than its size suggests. The Iglesia de San Marcos anchors the town, and the stone houses that climb from the waterfront retain…
A few houses at the intersection where the trail over the Corcubion hills meets the road. The camino continues toward San Roque.
The camino passes the hamlet of Amarela as it winds its way downhill, trying at every opportunity to avoid the main road until it arrives at Estorde.
A hamlet on the descent from San Roque to the coast. The camino tries to avoid the main road at every opportunity through here.
A small coastal village where the camino meets the shoreline again. The beach at Estorde is the first on the approach to Finisterre, and the walking from here follows the coast.
Be mindful not to follow the main road out of town, the camino follows a trail on the upper (your right) side of town and is much more comfortable walking.
TO MUXÍA: The route to Muxía has matured over the last five years, but services along the 29km stretch way remain scarce. Lires and Frixe both have bars, and Lires has a few guesthouses if you wish to split the walk into two days.To find the way to Muxía, head back along the road you came in on. At the cruceiro that marks the end of the beach stay on the road. It curves left at the cruceiro, and then curves right. Turn left (uphill) at the second street when you get to the first signs indicating the way. Between here and Muxía you will find the new markers installed in pairs and indicating the ways to Muxía and Finisterre, and you will also find double ended yellow arrows with M and F on either end.The walk is along paved road from Finisterre to San Salvador, but from there it joins a gravel trail for most of the way, only joining paved surfaces as it passes through the smaller villages.
The official certificate of completion, known as the Fisterrana, can be obtained at the tourism office. You are advised to have all of your stamps in order, for they are on the lookout for anybody who might have taken the bus.
Distance, climb and descent are measured along the GPS track for this camino — 1,722 recorded points across this span, the same track the app carries. The town-to-town figures in my data put it at 28 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.