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Towns worth discovering along the Camino de Santiago, chosen by our team. Open one to see its history and sights, and where to stay.
5 towns on the Badajoz - Estremoz
View on the mapBadajoz is your starting point, a city that spent centuries looking across at its counterpart: Elvas, the Portuguese fortress on the other side of the border. From the cathedral you walk through the Puerta de Palmas and over the Guadiana, and after 21.7 kilometres you have changed country and time zone.
Badajoz - EstremozBorba lies just 6.3 kilometres beyond Vila Viçosa, and here the marble shows its everyday face: a white baroque fountain from 1781, a façade in a chequerboard of light and dark stone, quarries all around. A break is enough, then it is another 14.9 kilometres to Estremoz and the Via Nascente.
Badajoz - EstremozElvas is a town built to hold out: bastions, ditches and forts against Spain, an aqueduct of more than seven kilometres so that the water kept flowing even during a siege. A World Heritage Site since 2012. Stay a day, because tomorrow 31.7 kilometres await you to Vila Viçosa.
Badajoz - EstremozEstremoz is where the road from Badajoz ends, and the Via Nascente carries you on to the north. The white marble town is where Queen Isabel died in 1336, eleven years after she received her pilgrim's staff in Santiago. A rest day is well spent here, ideally on a Saturday.
Via NascenteBadajoz - EstremozVila Viçosa is the town of the crown: here in 1646 King João IV placed his crown on a statue of Our Lady, and no Portuguese king has worn one since. After 31.7 kilometres from Elvas, you reach the castle hill with the shrine of the patron saint, the marble palace of the Braganças and a town built out of marble.
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