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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.
8 towns on the Camiño Inglés
View on the mapBetanzos is the city of knights on the Camino Inglés, 49.8 kilometres from Ferrol: an old town on an ancient hillfort, built up by the lords of Andrade, with Gothic churches and a tomb that rests on a bear and a boar. An afternoon is enough, and tomorrow brings the hardest stage of the route.
Camiño InglésFerrol is the port where the Camiño Inglés begins: from the Curuxeiras quay it is 114 kilometres to Santiago, just enough for the Compostela. In the Middle Ages pilgrims from England, Ireland and Scandinavia landed here by ship; today almost every Inglés pilgrim starts in this naval town. An afternoon is enough, so plan it before day one.
Camino del MarCamiño InglésHospital de Bruma is where the two branches of the Camino Inglés come together: a hamlet at almost 400 metres, 40.7 kilometres before Santiago, where a pilgrim hospital stood from the 12th century. Today you sleep in the hostel on its site. There is a chapel, a bar-restaurant, no shop and a lot of quiet.
Camiño InglésMiño is the breather between Pontedeume and Betanzos: after the steepest climb on the Camiño Inglés you come back to the water here, to a ría with marshes and a 1.4-kilometre sandy beach. Most pilgrims walk on after a break; if you prefer short stages, you sleep in a small hostel at the edge of the marshes.
Camiño InglésNeda is the first pilgrim hostel on the Camiño Inglés, 16.7 kilometres from the quay in Ferrol, at the head of the ría. For centuries the town has lived from bread: its ovens baked ship's biscuit for the Spanish fleet, and its church holds a Christ that an English refugee brought in 1550. An afternoon is enough.
Camiño InglésPontedeume is where your first day on the Camiño Inglés ends, 29.5 kilometres from Ferrol: you enter town over a bridge that already stood here in 1380, then around 850 metres long, with a chapel and a pilgrim hospital. It was built by the Andrade family, whose tower still rises above the ría. An afternoon is enough.
Camiño InglésSantiago de Compostela is where 14 Caminos end, and in 2025 more pilgrims than ever collected their Compostela here: 530,987. Around the cathedral with the apostle's tomb you'll find granite squares, monasteries and tapas bars. Stay at least two nights, because arriving takes time.
Camino FrancésCamino Portugués Central+12Sigüeiro is the last night on the Camino Inglés: 98.1 kilometres after Ferrol, only 15.9 to go to Santiago. A town on the Río Tambre with a medieval bridge, a park honouring the famous pilgrims of this route and only private hostels. An afternoon by the river is enough; tomorrow at noon you arrive.
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