Picked by our team
Towns worth discovering along the Camino de Santiago, chosen by our team. Open one to see its history and sights, and where to stay.
17 towns on the Camino del Mar
View on the mapO Vicedo is the last stop in the province of Lugo: a small harbour, a monument to the fishermen and a long beach as far as the Río Sor. Behind you lie the cliffs of the Punta Fuciño do Porco, ahead of you the iron bridge of 1901 across to O Barqueiro.
Camino del MarRibadeo is your first town in Galicia: you cross the Ría del Eo from Asturias on the Puente de los Santos, and 193.5 kilometres to Santiago still lie ahead. An old harbour with a modernist tower, a fortress and a convent, plus albergues for every budget.
Camino del NorteCamino del MarRinlo is the first fishing village after Ribadeo: around 300 people, a small harbour in a rocky cove and old stone pools where lobsters and spiny lobsters once waited alive for their buyers. It's enough for a break, and for a plate of rice with lobster too. After that it's another 6.9 kilometres to the Cathedrals Beach.
Camino del NorteCamino del MarSan Cibrao is a fishing village that more than one pilgrim has fallen in love with: an old harbour, a lighthouse, three rocky islands off the coast and a bronze mermaid who is put on trial every August. Plus a sea museum right on the path, free of charge. Only the aluminium smelter reminds you that not everything here is a postcard.
Camino del MarSan Cosme is the parish of Barreiros at the mouth of the Masma: a long white sandy beach opposite Foz, a supermarket, an old parish church and quiet side roads. Here the path briefly leaves the open sea and turns towards the ría. A break is enough, then there are still 9.9 kilometres to Foz.
Camino del NorteCamino del MarAfter Santiago, Santo André de Teixido is the best-known pilgrimage site in Galicia: a white village in a gorge above the Atlantic, the church of the apostle Andrew, the spring with three spouts. Whoever does not come alive comes dead, says the proverb. You come on foot, after the ridge of the Capelada.
Camino del MarValdoviño is the place of the lagoon and the waves: behind a three-kilometre-long sandy beach lies the Lagoa da Frouxeira, a resting place for thousands of migratory birds, and next door in Pantín surfers have been riding the World Cup since 1988. For pilgrims there are dormitories again at last, in two surf hostels. Ahead of you lies the long way to Ferrol.
Camino del MarViveiro is the imperial gate of the Camino del Mar: you walk through the Porta de Carlos V and over a bridge that took 82 years to build. Plus a Holy Week of international standing, line-caught hake from Celeiro and the only pilgrim albergue on the whole way.
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