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Get the appCastro Dozón is where the two route variants from Cea -- via Oseira and via Piñor -- reunite. It's a small town straddling the N-525 with basic services. The name suggests a pre-Roman hilltop settlement (castro), though not much remains to be seen.
The town marks a transition point on the route. Behind you are the valleys of Cea and Oseira; ahead, the camino enters the rolling interior of Galicia with its characteristic patchwork of eucalyptus forest, pine groves, and stone hamlets. The ups and downs never really stop from here to Santiago, but they never reach any serious altitude either.
From Castro Dozón the camino resumes its on-again-off-again dance with the N-525. It does so for about 4.5 km before veering left off the N-525 and descending through the hamlets of Puxallos (1.5 km) and Pontenoufe (2.3 km). From there it climbs back up to the motorway, passing A Xesta (1.6 km) along the way to Estación de Lalín.
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.
