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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.
3 towns on the Camino Torres
View on the mapBraga was a bishop's seat long before Santiago became a pilgrim destination: its cathedral was consecrated in 1089 and is the oldest in Portugal. The Caminho Leon de Rosmithal and the route from Porto end here, the Camino Torres runs through, and Santiago is still 191.9 kilometres away. Worth a rest day.
Camino TorresPorto - Braga+3Ponte de Lima is the place where you are not supposed to forget: at this bridge over the Lima, which the Romans took for the river of forgetting, a general is said to have called his soldiers by name. The town received its charter in 1125. The pilgrim hostel costs €5, and tomorrow the climb over the Labruja awaits.
Camino Portugués CentralCamino Torres+2Trancoso is the handover: after 661.2 kilometres the Via Nascente ends here, and the Camino Torres carries on to Santiago. Behind the Porta d'El Rei awaits a walled town where King Dinis married Isabel of Aragón in 1282 and Christians and Jews lived door to door. There is no pilgrim hostel.
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