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Stage 28

Portomarín Stage to Palas de Rei

km 25,0

Time 05H 45’

Difficulty Medium

Hostels 21

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After the first part the road gets tougher

Information about the stage 28: Portomarín Stage to Palas de Rei

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Points of interest in the stage 28: Portomarín Stage to Palas de Rei

15 Mesón de Benito Hostel
14 Hostel Buen Camino
13 Palas de Rei Hostel
12 Hostel Fuente del Peregrino
11 Hostel of pilgrims School of Ligonde
10 Hostel O Cruceiro
9 Casa Molar Hostel
8 Private hostel Casa García
7 Hostel in Gonzar
6 Hostel Manuel
5 Hostel Ultreia (Portome)
4 El Caminante Hostel
3 El Caminante Hostel
2 Hostel Ferramenteiro
1 Portome Hostel

The route

Km 0. (All Services)

We go back from the public hostel to the nearby church of St. Nicholas and we go forward to the avenue of Chantada, which ends up on the same road. Before it crossed the metal catwalk that saves the Rego das Torres, but it is closed. It is now overtaken by the road bridge, well signposted. Over this one we left the asphalt on the right, next to a few houses, and continued along the skirt of Mount San Antonio (Km 1). We go up about a kilometer and we start to land between pines and grasslands. The road goes down to the arcén of the LU-633 and passed the crossing to San Mamede and Velade we took an andadero stuck to the road. A few hundred meters later, at the height of a brick factory (Km 3), we crossed the road and continued along a similar andadero advancing right.

At the height of some fertilizer and fertilizer ships we cross the LU-633 again and progress on the left. Four hundred and fifty meters later we arrived at Toxibo (Mojón 85.5). A house and, later on, a sleek stone and wood herd, decorated with a rosette and finished with pinnacle and cross, is the entire visit (Km 4.8).

Although we are still walking very close to the road, several pine spots isolate us from it during a small stretch. Back next to the asphalt we had a merendero (Km 7,3) and pulled to the nearby parish of Gonzar. The church of Santa Maria and the population nucleus are left.

Km 8. Gonzar (Hostels. Bar)

We pass by the bar and the public hostel and soon turn left to take a runway that goes up to Castromaior, also parish of the Concello de Portome with Romanesque church of the end of the 12th and a nearby prerevolutionary castro.

Km 9.3. Castromaior (Bar. Pension)

From Castromaior we face a demanding climb of 700 meters, where the optional diversion to the castro prermano is indicated to the left, from which you can return to the Camino without going back. We ascended to another andadero parallel to the LU-633 (Km 10). We still cross the road a couple of times until we reach Hospital da Cruz, village of the parish of San Mamede de O Río, also of Portome.

Km 11.8. Hospital da Cruz (Hostel. Bar)

We carefully crossed the N-540 and took the C-535 in the Sales direction. This is a modest road with a compact arcén that we will travel over the next 10 kilometers to the N-547 link in A Brea. The next population we visited is Sales of Narón

Km 13.3. Sales of Narón (Hostels. Bar)

At the exit there is a small chapel rehabilitated in 2004. Half a kilometer, in a gentle ascent through the arcén, we reached the Cairn 76.5, which announces the Sierra de Ligonde. The sierra de Ligonde divides the basins of the Miño and Ulla rivers (Km 13,8). We now enjoy a good downhill section. Kilometer and a half later we left aside the village of Previsa, the first of the Concello de Monterroso (Km 15,3)

Half a kilometer below, on the right hand, is Os Lameiros, with the pazo and the chapel of San Marcos. Two hundred meters, next to the Camino, the famous cruise of Lameiros rises. It is double-sided and was placed in 1670. On one side the image of Christ is represented and on the other the Virgin of Pains. At the base we can distinguish tendencies, a crown of thorns and a skull, referring to the calvary of Jesus (Km 16).

We immediately reached Ligonde, passing by the cross that points to the place of an old pilgrim cemetery. To this point the pilgrims come to pick up the owners of the hostel Nirvana Lodge, opened in summer 2013 and located a few kilometers from the Camino in the place of Novelúa (see observations). Also next to the Casa de Carneiro, which had as illustrious guests Carlos V, in March 1520 when traveling to be crowned emperor, and Felipe II, in May 1554 on the way to La Coruña to marry María Tudor.

Km 16.5. Ligonde (Hostels. Bar)

At the exit of Ligonde, next to the municipal hostel, we take a path that goes down a wall to the bridge over the river Airexe (Km 17). We go back to Airexe (Km 17.4). On the left hand side, something apart, is the church of Santiago, with a neoclassical bill and the Romanesque cover of its predecessor.

Km 17.4. Airexe (Hostel. Bar)

We move through the arcén and continue forward after crossing the LU-3301 (Km 18,5). Then we reached the village of Portos, already of the Concello de Palas de Rei.

Km 19.4. Portos (Lodge-Bar)

Soon there is the diversion to Vilar de Donas. Then we arrived at the parish of Santiago de Lestedo.

Km 20. Lestedo (Lodge-Bar. Country House)

We climbed to the village of Os Valos (Km 20,9) to go down to A Mamurria (Km 21,5). Then comes A Brea (Km 22), where we left the paved runway - road to transit parallel to the N-547. Next to it are first Avenostre (Km 22.4) and then O Rosario, where the pilgrims prayed a rosary in the sight of Mount Sacro. On his slopes, the disciples of the Apostle James dozed the Braves who carried the body of the saint (Km 23,4).

Half a kilometer later we reached the recreational area Os Chacotes, where is the public hostel of the same name (Km 23.9). A few more meters and we arrived at Palas de Rei. We enter the rua do Cruceiro, visit the church of San Tirso and go down the stairway to the very center of Concello, where the other hostels are located.

Km 25. Palas de Rei (All Services)

The difficulties

Remarks

In images

What to see, what to do

GONZAR:Santa
Maria de Gonzar is one of the 20 parishes of the Concello de Portome. Gonzar was commissioned by the knights of San Juan de Portome and the parish of Santa Maria is its most important monument. Above, in Castromaior, we are in an area of Celtic castros that can give us an image of what Galicia was like before being conquered by the Romans. In this parish is the small church of Santa Maria, simple and crude but well preserved. Inside they stand out a Romanesque carving of the Virgin and a sixteenth century altarpiece. In Gonzar there are a couple of bars, one at the foot of the road and another inside which is also a hostel. Castromaior also has a bar.
NARÓN SALES:Narón's sales
was a stop on the road before crossing the Ligonde Sierra and place of commercial transactions. At the exit of the village is the Chapel of the Magdalene, which can be an indication of the existence of an old hospital at the service of pilgrims. It is believed that in this place Christians, after discovering the tomb of the Apostle in Santiago, beat the Emir of Córdoba in their attempt to conquer Galicia. Here Benito Viceto located the beginning of his historic novel Los Hidalgos de Monforte, when a group of gentlemen meet to prepare the attack on the Count of Lemos.
LIGONDE:Ligonde
is one of the 29 parishes of the Concello de Monterroso and encompasses 12 villages or entities. In the past, it was also an important Jacobean station where a pilgrim cemetery is still preserved, annexed to a missing hospital of the Order of Santiago. Attention is drawn to the decoration of its facades. He was donated in 956 by Count Osorio to his wife Doña Teoduli Pepiz to redeem her sins. His neoclassical church of Santiago retains the Romanesque cover of his predecessor. Just before entering Ligonde is the cruceiro de Lameiros (1670), where the four sides of the base represent the calvary or the death of Jesus (hammer, nails, thorns and skulls), while on the cross the relief of motherhood or life. It has a municipal hostel and bars and public hostel are located in the immediate heart of Airexe.
MONASTERY OF VILAR DE DONAS:Between Portos
and Lestedo (between the kilometers 19.4 and 20 of the stage) is the diversion to Vilar de Donas, parish of the Concello de Palas de Rei where is the most valuable of the more than twenty small Romanesque churches of the municipality of Palas de Rei: the church of the great The diversion is about 2.5 km away and so many more back. If we bike pilgrimage there is no problem as at the turn you can take the N-547 and link to the Camino in A Brea.
PALAS DE REI:The
history of Palas de Rei goes back to remote times, and more considering the number of Celtic Castros existing in its municipal area and their location on the Roman Line Array-Astorga. It was an important place in the Middle Ages where pilgrims used to gather together to face the last sections of the Jacobean route. The church of San Tirso, more specifically its Romanesque cover, is the only vestige left of its historical past. However, the artistic richness of his Concello is considerable: twenty Romanesque churches such as Vilar de Donas, Pambre Castle and the literary and television Pazo de Ulloa. Palas de Rei has multiple possibilities of supply and enjoyment for the pilgrim.