Miraz

How long to stay?

An evening is enough. Miraz is a place to sleep, not to sightsee. What makes it special is the albergue: a house of the British Confraternity of Saint James, breakfast included, conversations in English. Arrive, wash your things and enjoy the quiet.

Miraz in Ninja numbers

• 86.0 kilometres are left from here to Santiago de Compostela.
• 14.8 kilometres from Baamonde, with 238 metres of ascent.
• 710 metres high is tomorrow's highest point of the Camino del Norte, 15.7 kilometres beyond Miraz.
• 20 beds in the San Martín albergue, open from April to October.

Arriving: a hamlet in Friol

Via Carballedo and Seixón you reach Miraz, a hamlet in the municipality of Friol with around a hundred inhabitants. There is a bar with a restaurant, but no shop, no pharmacy and no cash machine.

In brief: a house of the English

In 2005 the Confraternity of Saint James, the British association of St James, opened its own pilgrim albergue in Miraz; it was renovated in 2011. Since then volunteers, mostly from the English-speaking world, have welcomed pilgrims here on their way to Sobrado.

Honestly

• No shop, no cash machine. Bring cash and food from Baamonde.
• Only from April to October. In winter the albergue is closed.
• The stage to Sobrado is long and high. 25.3 kilometres with 495 metres of ascent, and supplies only in a few hamlets.

Where pilgrims sleep

The Albergue San Martín belongs to the Confraternity of Saint James. 20 places, a donation instead of a price, breakfast and bed linen included, open from 1 April to 31 October, check-in from 2 pm, no reservations (as of August 2026). There is a kitchen with a fridge and a dryer, but no washing machine.

Ninja tips

• Give an honest donation. The albergue lives on it, and breakfast is included.
• Fill your bottle in the morning. Until Sobrado there are only a few hamlets with bars, for example A Roxica after a good ten kilometres.
• If needed, plan a shorter stage. A Cabana has a Xunta albergue, but no shop or bar.

Onward: to Sobrado dos Monxes

Via As Laxes and A Roxica the way climbs into the hills on the border between Lugo and A Coruña. At kilometre 825.9 you reach the highest point of the Camino del Norte at 710 metres; according to Gronze the only sign there marks the provincial border. To Sobrado dos Monxes it is 25.3 kilometres with 495 metres of ascent and 439 metres of descent.

Deep dive: Hospitality in English

A short read, in case you want to learn more about Miraz. About two minutes' reading.

A London association in Galicia

The Confraternity of Saint James is Britain's association of St James. It supports pilgrims with guides and credentials and runs its own albergues in Spain. One of them has stood since 2005 in Miraz, a small place in the municipality of Friol, in an area where for a long time there was hardly a bed for pilgrims.

Volunteers

The hospitaleros in Miraz are volunteers. They speak English, welcome those who arrive and make breakfast in the morning. There is no fixed price. Whoever comes gives what they think is right. That is the old idea of the pilgrim albergue: a roof and a breakfast, carried by those who walked before.

What Miraz gives you

Miraz has no sights. What you take with you from here is an encounter. Tomorrow you cross the highest point of the way, and perhaps up there you will think of the people who took you in the evening before without knowing you.