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Camino Portugues Light (Tui-Santiago) - the last 100 km.

Camino Portugués

The historic Camino Portugues starting in Portugal is favoured by many, as it offers some of the most beautiful beaches and some of the best food and wine in Spain and Portugal.

  • From 990 EUR/pers.
  • 118 Km
  • 8 days / 7 nights
  • Difficulty
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    NOTE: nowhere, in any Camino, will steep cliffs be found next to path!

    1: Very easy. Flat and without significant gradients. Good and normally wide paths.

    2: Easy. Slightly hilly. Good and normally wide paths.

    3: Medium. Hilly, possibly with longer distances between service facilities/cities. Good, sometimes narrow paths.

    4: Medium/Hard. Longer, steeper climbs, perhaps with few servicefacilities/cities. Good, sometimes narrow paths.

    5: Hard. Long gradient(s), possibly few facilities. Very hilly. Good, sometimes narrow paths.
  • Nature

The Portuguese Way, also called Camino Portugues, has become the second most frequented pilgrimage route of all. Almost 20% of all pilgrims arrive in Santiago in this way.

The starting point of this route is Tui, at the boarder between Portugal ans Spain. The Camino Portugués consists of an ideal mix of exiting culture, beautiful and varied natural landscapes, big cities, history, beaches, hilly woodland, rivers and idyllic villages.

This is an exciting and historic journey that every pilgrim will enjoy.

On this Pilgrimage hike on you will experience stages 6 to 10 of the 10 Camino-Portugués stages to Santiago.

Make your trip personal! Spain is More offers and guarantees the following on this trip:

✔ Daily Departures from April to October.

✔ Hotel-to-Hotel Baggage Service is optional.

✔ Your personal Pilgrim's Passport.

✔ Specially Selected Hotels - always with private bathroom - selected for best location, service and authentic charm.

✔ Spain is More Camino Guidebook (which you will receive some weeks before departure) contains practical pilgrim information, suggestions for packing list, recommended restaurants, maps of all cities along The Camino- and hotel location, Pilgrim's Passport/Credential, advice and guidance, service phone numbers and much more, all to make your trip on The Camino an experience of a lifetime!

✔ Dividing stages: Yes, always!

✔ Day trip to Finisterre.

It includes

From 990 EUR/pers.Per person in a double room.

Single room supplement: 180 EUR

It includes
  1. 7 nights in a double room - always with private bath/toilet.
  2. 7 x breakfast.
  3. Bus from Oporto airport to Valenca Do Minho or Santiago busstation to Tui.
  4. Spain-is-Mores digital travel Guidebook
  5. Pilgrim Passport / Credencial.
  6. Guided Tour to Finisterre.
  7. 24/7 emergency telephone number.
  8. Taxes.
Not included
  1. Some short local bus or taxi journeys, e.g. from airport to bus or train station in the same city. 
Optional
  1. Personalise your Camino: Extended stays, divide stages, transportation to startingpoint from anywhere in the world and back. Please ask us, we will be happy to assist you.
  2. Baggage Transport on the pilgrim route can be purchased. If you buy a luggage service your bag / suitcase will be transported from hotel to hotel on the scheduled days of hiking. Price 60 €/unit of max 15 kg.
  3. Cancellation insurance: available in the trip confirmation process. (can be added when ordering).
Description

This part between Tuí and Redondela is one of the most beautiful ones. Easy ups and downs followed by a couple of longer hikes up through some green forest. 

No many services along this stage.

It is possible to divide this stage in two aproximately in the middel.

More information on Túi - Redondela

After getting to Redondela, the terrain provides slightly more incline than during the previous section. But, you will never climb higher than about 200m. After Ponteveda, you will find some stretches through the beautiful and green Galician woodland. Here the terrain rises and falls while you continue towards Santiago. It's an amazing section of the trip, where you will often pass by Galician vineyards.

More information on Redondela - Santiago
Detailed itinerary
Detailed itinerary (view all days )
Day 1.- Arrival to Tui

You will arrive to Tui by bus from Vigo or Santiago, or by bus from Oporto to Valenca Do Minho. From Valenca do Minho you take a taxi to Tui. Discover this beautiful and historic city on the fontier between Spain and Portugal.

Day 2.- Tui - Redondela 32 Km

A relatively long stage with only single (but still somewhat difficult) climb en route. On the other hand, this stage is probably the most beautiful of all of the Portuguese Way, particularly the way through the valley of Rio Louro and later the views of the impressive Galician fjords.

Many choose to split the stage halfway, because of the difficulty and the amount of kilometers.

Distance: 32 Km

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RedondelaTui
Day 3.- Redondela - Pontevedra 20 Km

Today you will have a few climbs on your way to Pontevedra, but you will also be walking through the very heart of Galicia! Along the way you will get to see the famous stone crosses (Cruceiros), which for centuries have guided and protected pilgrims on their way to Santiago. Several of these small masterpieces are dated back to the 15th century. When you reach Pontevedra, you can visit various churches, monasteries and monuments of the city, go shopping in the city's old quarter (Casco Viejo), or enjoy the vibrant nightlife and the many excellent restaurants - and of course, taste a glass of the local Albariño white vine.

Distance: 20 Km

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PontevedraRedondela
Day 4.- Pontevedra - Caldas del Reis 22 Km

After leaving Pontevedra's Old Town Centre, the route quickly takes you to one of the most beautiful sections of this part of the Camino. Among other things, you will pass the area of Barro with absolutely wonderful waterfalls, and later Briallos, the latter leading you through scenic vineyards of Galicia. In Caldas de Reis you will have the opportunity to enjoy one of the many thermal baths which Galicia is famed for.

Distance: 22 Km

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Caldas de ReisPontevedra
Day 5.- Caldas del Rey - Padrón 19 Km

Today you arrive at Padrón, the next most important pilgrimage city after Santiago de Compostela. According to ancient legend, the Apostle Saint James is said to have preached on the Iberian Peninsula. The tradition has that after being beheaded in the year 44 AD, the body of Saint James arrived by boat to the Galician coast navigated by two of his disciples from the city of Jaffa in Palestine. From here, his corpse was carried to Padrón, because the Apostle James is said to have preached at Monte de Santiaguiño. In Padrón, a long and very beautiful stairway leads along the Mosterio Convento do Carmen to this sacred place that is definitely worth a visit. The route to Padrón is as beautiful as the former pilgrimage route, and there is an overall special atmosphere in the small town of Padrón, with its mere 3,000 inhabitants.

Distance: 19 Km

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PadrónCaldas de Reis
Day 6.- Padrón - Santiago de Compostela 25 Km

This is the last of your 13 pilgrim’s stages towards Santiago de Compostela. Whether it is your first pilgrimage, or you have done it several times, you will undoubtedly notice a very unique contrast of excitement while feeling an unexplained serenity throughout your body, both at the same time the closer you come to Santiago.

The route from Padrón to Santiago starts with some walking along the road, but soon you get back to the small and charming paths and dirt roads, which you know so well from the previous days. About seven kilometres from Santiago, you can see the Cathedral's two iconic spires for the first time, and from here there is only path to reach your goal of arriving to Santiago.

When you enter the Plaza de Obradoiro in front of the Cathedral, which may already be filled with happy, tired and redeemed pilgrims, you will most likely see some others you have met on your way to Santiago. Perhaps, you have made new friends along the way, and maybe, you will find that these friendships will grow stronger and evolve over time – Buen Camino!

Distance: 25 Km

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Santiago de CompostelaPadrón
Day 7.- Santiago de Compostela and Finisterre

True pilgrims continues further and finish their journeys in Finisterre. The tour goes by bus with an English-speaking guide from Santiago to Finisterre in the morning and returns mid-efternoon to Santiago. Just off the stunning, rugged coastline and the fabled “Costa de la Muerte” (Death Coast), a reef filled with shipwrecks and tales of legends captures a raw, natural beauty. On the coast’s westernmost point is Finisterre – meaning the world’s end. Romans named this coast because it was literally the end of the known world. For many pilgrims this is the symbolic endpoint of the pilgrimage. 

The evening is spent in Santiago de Compostela.

Day 8.- Departure