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Stage 3

Olveiroa to Fisterra Stage

km 34,9

Time 08H 15’

Difficulty Medium

Hostels 22

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Watch out for cyclists from Cruceiro da Armada to Camiños Chans

Information about the stage 3: Olveiroa to Fisterra Stage

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Points of interest in the stage 3: Olveiroa to Fisterra Stage

7 Albergue do Sol
6 Albergue O Encontro Finisterra
5 Albergue de Paz
4 Albergue Finistellae
3 Albergue de Peregrinos de Fisterra
2 Albergue O Bordón
1 Albergue O Camiño das Estrelas

The route

Km 0. Olveiroa(Hostels. Bars)

We descend the street of the hostel and turn right to leave Olveiroa on the paved runway. Attention must be paid because in short, at the height of the Cairn 34,558, we must turn left to cross a stream and take a fitted path that leads to the Castrelo reservoir. After a curve, we take, on the right, a path that goes up a line of wind turbines. Later on we left this path and advanced along the hillside of the mountain with incredible views of the Xallas River, which flows embedded by a dense vegetation. We ended up going down to the place of Vao de Ripas, where we crossed the river Hospital by a stone bridge rehabilitated in 2005 by AGACS (Km 2.7). We saved a hill and entered Logoso, a village
located on the slopes of Monte Castelo.

Km 3.7. Logoso(Store-Store. Bar)

We went through this small place and boarded a shuttle to the village of Hospital, where we took the road CP-3404 (Km 5.1). A few meters away there is a bar with hostel on the left.It is the last point of heating up to the Community, so you should eat something or get a drink and a snack. After the bar we cut off a bit on the old road to get to the roundabout where the cairn is located that forks the roads to Fisterra and Muxía.Check Stage 4 for the Muxía route!

Km 6. Fisterra and Muxía

We continue on the left, in the direction of Fisterra, and past the factory we left the road on the right to take a good track surrounded by an open landscape of tojos, pines and eucalyptus. It leads us to the Marco do Couto cruise (Km 8.4), also in this place a sculpture of the monster Vákner, a myth of the middle age was placed in 2022. We continue on a similar ground, with a left-hand view of Buxantes, until the chapel of Nuestra Señora de las Nieves. There is a sinner where we can do a stop (Km 10.5).

Next, let’s go through the repopulated Monte do Lousado by comfortable slopes to the chapel of San Pedro Mártir, of the parish of Pereiriña. Manuel Vilar quotes that “the construction may be related to the monastery of Santa Tasia” (Km 13,8). We extend the walk to the Navy Cruceiro, which we can see on the right hand. From here you can see Cabo Fisterra bathed by the Atlantic (Km 16.2).

After the cruise there is a steep descent with a view to the Ría de Corcubión, which leads to Camiños Chans and Cee, where there is also an option to finish the stage thanks to the opening of several private hostels. The itinerary leads through the Camp Sacramento and rustic Magdalena to the center of Cee, where is the church of Santa Maria de Xunqueira, from the 16th century and with a Gothic chapel. Cee was populated in ancient times by the Nerios. Towards the twelfth century it was a small agricultural villa and at present it is the largest municipality on the Costa da Morte with about 8,000 inhabitants.

Km 19.5. Community(All Services)

You can go to Corcubión taking the walk closest to the beach. There is a Jacobean cairn that diverts us from the back, but the views of the sea and the port deserve more. When you reach Corcubión you have to cross the pedestrian crossing that is located next to the Post office to link to the official route. Through San Marcos Street we reached the church of the same name. He replaced the former parish of San Andrés de Canle, is declared a Cultural Good and is a Gothic sailor style, although it has baroque and even neo-gothic parts, as is the case of the facade.

Km 21. (All Services)

Next to the temple we take the stairs on the right and along the street of the Mercedes we go to the camp do Rollo, with playground. At this point we are going up a road that will give us pleasure with nice views of Corcubion and Cee. The climb does not end and we must use it thoroughly to overcome the short but demanding ramp that ascends to the San Roque camp, where the hostel managed by AGACS is located, and the village of Vilar (Km 21,8).

Km 21.8. Vilar(Hostel)

Later, after crossing the road, we took a path that descends back to the AC-445. Almost always through the arcén we pass Amarela and then Estorde. At the entrance to Sardiñeiro we left a bit of the road to return to it and left it at the height of the rustic Nova.

Km 25.7. Sardiñeiro(Bars. Store)

We say goodbye to this town for a nice stretch, which was Camino Real, where it won't be hard to see more than one hunter training the dogs. Ends in a viewpoint over Fisterra and Cabo (Km 27.5). After crossing the road again we descend suddenly to surround the Heel cove. Another short section of the road leads to Calcoba, where the extensive Langosteira Arenal springs.

Km 28.8. Calcoba(Bar)

Many pilgrims decide to walk this stretch at the foot of the beach, a more authentic route, although the official road advances after the dunes. Fisterra is accessed in the San Roque district and passed by the Baixar Cross, a XVI granite cruise. In the obverse is Christ crucified and in the reverse Mary Immaculate with the child Jesus (Km 30,7). Santa Catalina Street is reached in Calle Real, where is the public hostel and where will give us the Fisterrana.

Km 31.7. Fisterra(All Services)

This is not the end, we still have to climb to the Faro. After the hostel we will walk next to the chapel of Nuestra Señora del Buen Sucess, 1743 Baroque church located in Ara Solis Square. The cruise shows Christ crucified and the Virgen del Socorro. Already on the road to the Faro is the church of Santa Maria das Areas, its origin goes back to the 12th century. It houses the gothic height of the Christ of Fisterra, an image wrapped in legends. It has Puerta Santa and a 17th-century Santiago Peregrino.

The road climb is quite bearable and in the middle of the climb we will see a modern sculpture of a medieval pilgrim. The 0 kilometers' mojón welcomes us to the surroundings of the Faro. It was built in 1853 based on the design of Félix Uhagón. The entrance building is known as The Mermaid and is 1889. It houses the Tourist Information Center managed by the Neria de la Costa da Morte Association, where they give advice, sellan credentials and collect statistics (Phones: 670 29 27 20, 981 70 60 28). The prerogative peoples already worshipped the sun from this very suggestive geographical point. To see it hidden in the waters of the ocean is a unique spectacle and the punchline of a whole pilgrimage to the end of the Earth.

Km 34.9. Faro de Fisterra

The difficulties

Remarks

In images

What to see, what to do

EEC:Eec and
its neighbour Corcubion rest on the great cove that happens to the rapid and discarded descent. Cee is the municipality with the largest population of the figurative region of the Costa da Morte, formed by six parishes that add up to about 8,000 inhabitants. The cradle of Atlantic Nerian cells, the term 'Cee' derives from a Latin word about cetacean, not in vain the historical documentation refers to a whaling port and its inhabitants devoted themselves for centuries to whaling and whaling. In the parish of Gures, on the beach of Caneliñas, there is an abandoned factory that from the 1920s to 1985 was dedicated to the fishing of cetaceans and their transformation and sale. The Jacobean route has recovered the passage through the old town of Cee, a network of streets and stone houses around the church of Santa Maria de Xunqueira, which still retains Gothic elements despite the damage caused by the wave of destruction of the War of Independence.

In Cee You can visit the Fernando Blanco Museum, in the Plaza de la Constitución, which houses from scientific instruments and didactic material to collections of animals, minerals and fossils. It also hides samples of art, painting and religious goldsmithing. In addition to the parish church, the modernists Casa Mayán and Guillén deserve; the rectoral house and the noble pazo of Coton, located in Magdalena Street, in the early 17th century and residence of families such as the Carantoña. A great place of rest is the beach of La Concha and the well-known Filling, the land gained to the ocean in the late seventies. The Community is industry: the Ferroatlantis factory, which is now taking the bifurcation to Fisterra, employs hundreds of people; it is also agriculture: the livelihood and way of life in many of its villages; and it is services: up to four private hostels were opened between 2010 and 2012 and has commercial centres, shops, Sunday market, banks, pharmacies and hospitals.
CORCUBIÓN:Corcubión, a
vocablo formed by two voices that can be translated as a lake background, is a modest but endearing municipality - the smallest area of A Coruña - composed of two parishes: San Marcos de Corcubión and San Pedro de Redonda, inhabited by about 1,800 inhabitants. It was declared a Historical - Artistic Complex in 1984. This anchovy of the Atlantic was inhabited by cells that left their footprints in the defensive castro of Mount Quenxe, a privileged viewpoint that controls the whole estuary. From the thirteenth century the inhabitants moved from the hillside of the mountain - this species of peninsula has a great slope that the pilgrim tasting on the climb to the village of Vilar - towards the sea. The parish church of San Marcos, declared Good of Cultural Interest, is built after that time and much of its style can be considered Gothic sailor, although the facade is neo-gothic and some Baroque chapel. Luciano Huidobro highlights Corcubion's relationship with Venice: "curious and noteworthy case, advocating San Marcos: The honourable Member from Venice was found during the Middle Ages intimately linked by the ties of her activism and cunning trade with this Galician port. Here came the Venetian ships in search of metals and the rich products of the country."

On Antonio Porrúa street you can see the chapel of the Pilar, from 1931 and now destined for various cultural activities. In the parish of Redonda, beside the walker, is the 13th-century Romanesque church of San Pedro, with various sizes of San Pedro, San Juan Bautista and the Virgins and Mercedes. A closer visit to the town allows you to discover the pazos of the Condes of Traba and the Altamira and also modernist and bourgeois buildings such as Casa Miñones. In Punta Pión the castle of the Cardinal rose, which, together with the castle of the Prince of Eec, were built in the 18th century to seal the estuary of possible foreign incursions defending it from attacks.
FISTERRA:Fisterra, the
last known portion of habitable land for centuries and centuries for many. Where the sun succumbed to the sunset and disappeared after the dark waters of the Atlantic, a dark scenery but at the same time peaceful home for fantastic creatures and monsters. It was populated by Celtic tribes, like the Nerians, who worshipped the sun god on their altars, and also by Romans. So far came General Gross June and his army when they conquered what their future Gallaecia would be. In Duio, one of the parishes of the municipality, there are vestiges of the legendary city of Dugium, which was apparently buried under the waters. It is cited in Book III of the Codex Calixtinus, which narrates the translation of the body of Santiago, when the disciples of the Apostle visit the prefect of Duio and order his arrest but manage to flee. Fisterra is now more than ever and has always been a place of travel and pilgrimage. Already in the 12th century there are documents citing the arrival of pilgrims to this confused paragraph and there are several travellers who in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries report their personal experiences towards Finis Terrae.

The current municipality has 5,000 inhabitants and consists of the main nucleus and parishes of San Vicenzo de Duio, San Martiño de Duio and San Xoán de Sardiñeiro. Fisterra is a clear exponent of seafaring villa, with its port, its coastal boats, its tarpaulin and an urban road populated with stone houses arranged in narrow streets.
- Chapel of Our Lady of Good Success:
  1743 Baroque church located in Ara Solis Square. The cruise shows Christ crucified and the Virgen del Socorro.
- Castillo de San Carlos:It is from
  the middle of the 18th century and is located on the central beach of Ribeira. Its construction was part of a defense plan of the Ria with two castles from the municipalities of Cee and Corcubión.
- Church of Santa Maria das Areas:It is
  located next to the road that rises to the Faro. Its origin dates back to the 12th century. It houses the gothic height of the Christ of Fisterra, an image wrapped in legends. It has Puerta Santa and a 17th-century Santiago Peregrino.