Vía de la Plata
14 km, 134 m up and 257 m down, through 6 places. Where you stop is up to you.
Every place on the path in order, with the distance from Vilar do Barrio. 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.
Paved walking along the road through the hamlets of Boveda (2.2 km), Vilar do Gomareite (bar) (0.9 km), Bobadela a Pinta (5.3 km), Padroso (bar) (1.1 km), Cima de Vila (1.7 km), and Quintela (1.4 km). As you enter Xunqueira de Ambia on a back road the albergue is one of the first buildings on your right.
A tiny hamlet on the road between Vilar de Barrio and Xunqueira de Ambia. No services.
Small hamlet with a bar. A welcome stop on the road to Xunqueira.
A hamlet along the road. No services. The walking through here is flat and paved -- a rest for the legs after the mountains.
A small hamlet with a bar. These Galician hamlets come in quick succession now -- the landscape is changing from mountain to valley.
A hamlet along the road. No services.
A hamlet just before Xunqueira de Ambia. No services.
After passing the church the camino turns right to follow the road towards Salgueiros, but quickly leaves the road to follow a side road and track down to the Rio Arnoia (0.9 km). It then climbs up to A Pousa along another track which turns off from the road shortly after crossing the river.
Distance, climb and descent are measured along the GPS track for this camino — 81 recorded points across this span, the same track the app carries. The town-to-town figures in my data put it at 13.9 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.