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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.
4 towns on the Valencia de Alcántara - Alpalhão
View on the mapAlpalhão is a crossroads: here the route from Valencia de Alcántara ends, and you carry on north along the Via Nascente. A 16th-century granite cross stands in the village, and crosses are carved into old doorposts. A quiet village for an evening, not for a rest day.
Via NascenteValencia de Alcántara - AlpalhãoCastelo de Vide is a place of refuge and water: below the castle lies the Judiaria with a 14th-century synagogue, where Jews from Castile and Aragon found shelter. Above the door of the church of Santiago Maior hangs the scallop shell. After that come 26.6 kilometres, with only Alagoa in between.
Valencia de Alcántara - AlpalhãoMarvão is the highest point of your way: after 19.1 kilometres from Spain you stand at 819 metres in a walled village that can only be reached by land from the east. A castle with a keep, a church of St James at its foot and, in 2026, exactly 800 years of town rights. Stay the afternoon and add the morning.
Valencia de Alcántara - AlpalhãoValencia de Alcántara is the starting point of the way to Alpalhão, and a town where Spain and Portugal got married in 1497: the daughter of the Catholic Monarchs took Manuel I as her husband here. A Gothic quarter with a synagogue, a great church and 48 dolmens all around. An afternoon is enough, tomorrow you cross the border.
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