Stage from Ribadeo to Lourenzá

Poor signs at the exit of
Ribadeo:Signs are quite precarious to leave Ribadeo. You have to go along Avenida Rosalía de Castro, passing by the bus station and continue straight through the rua Ramón González and Calle Diputación, where we turn right until you find the first cairn. Just over 190 kilometers to Santiago.

There are sightings in Vilela, Villamartín Grande and San Xusto:We will be able to refuel in Vilela
(with pilgrim hostel), just over 7 kilometers from Ribadeo, at the Support Point for the Pilgrim of Villamartín Grande and in San Xusto, almost at the end of the stage. There are sources in the localities of Concello de Barreiros.

Long step up and down can shorten it if you want to do it overnight in Gondan (22 kilometers).

In Villamartín Grande there is a Pilgrim Support Point called Snack. Telephones: 610 451 518 and 647 823 378. Besides restoring forces with food and drink there is a space with various items such as towels, underwear, ponchos, chubasqueros, covers backpacks, flashlights, batteries, tiritas, ointments… and some local craft product. They try to have a bowl of soup or soup, a salad or a bowl of Galician empanada. They also offer accommodation. They have private rooms. They offer optional community, vegan or vegetarian dinner. There is also a kitchen in case you want to buy something and cook it there.

In San Xusto, two kilometers past Gondán, is the bar restaurant La Curvy and now also a hostel (not listed in the stage). An old school of the Concello de Barreiros that has 14 places in bunk beds, showers and a small kitchen. The keys are ordered in the bar (phone 982 14 40 72).

Today the northern road becomes somewhat different by leaving the coast and immersing itself in a rural and livestock territory into the interior.

• Monastery of San Salvador: It was declared a National Historical Monument in 1974. Founded in 969 by Count Don Osorio Gutierrez, known as the Holy Count. Between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it underwent a great remodeling, a time of which the present constructions date. Monastic activity was abandoned in the second half of the twentieth century. The facade was designed by the architect Casas Novoa and constituted a preliminary essay of the facade of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. The former Abacial Chamber is now the seat of the Municipality of Vilanova de Lourenzá.
• Sacred Art Museum: Created in 1964, it is composed of an important collection of table paintings with scenes of the miracles of Count Don Osorio. There are sculptural pieces from the 17th and 18th centuries and a variety of pieces of goldsmithing.