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Portuguese Way<\/h1>\n
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Why choose the Portuguese Way<\/h2>\n

\n This is a different Way<\/strong>: we will not find plateaus,\n complicated heights or marked unevennesses as it happens, for example,\n with the French Way; but we will be able to enjoy forests and\n millenary cruises that hide under their cloaks the songs of the old\n troubadours of the high medieval epoch and the songs of friend, love\n and curse of Martin Codax or Mendi\u00f1o.\n <\/p>\n

\n In the twentieth century suffered a small process of stagnation due to\n the famous appearance of the Virgin to three shepherds in the\n Portuguese town of Fatima, which led to the Sanctuary, which was\n erected in honor of the Virgin, occupy the protagonism to the\n detriment of the pilgrim route to Santiago. However, it would not be\n long before the feeling of devotion to the Apostle and the\n international positioning of the route beyond the peninsula came to\n light again.\n <\/p>\n \n

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Two different detours<\/h3>\n

\n Two routes are even drawn<\/strong> , one of them known as\n the\n Portuguese way along the coast<\/a>\n that reaches Galician lands through A Guarda, passes through Baiona\n and Vigo and connects in Redondela with the\n other slope that enters Galicia through Tui<\/strong>, the\n most popular and recurrent. It crosses O Porri\u00f1o, Redondela,\n Pontevedra, Caldas de Reis or Padr\u00f3n before reaching Santiago and\n being able to hug the image of the Apostle. It\u2019s a easy ride to the\n finish line through magical paths that cross forests, villages,\n pazos and fortresses while saving rivers over medieval bridges.\n <\/p>\n

\n Chapels, churches and convents are our constant travel companions in\n this adventure that consolidates each year with more strength among\n the pilgrims, coming to situate the Portuguese Way as\n the most traveled of all the ways in the last years<\/strong>, only behind the most famous of the routes, the French.\n The signposting of the route is correct<\/strong>, especially\n in the Galician territory and the number of establishments is\n growing with an extensive public and private hostel service,\n especially from Porto. The fact of not being overcrowded, its great\n natural beauty and allows us to travel two countries, make this\n route, a highly recommended option to walk to the Galician capital.\n <\/p>\n

The spiritual variant<\/h3>\n

\n On arrival in Pontevedra, already in Galicia, many pilgrims decide\n to follow the known as\n spiritual variant of the Portuguese Way<\/strong>, that\n connects this with the route of Traslatio. This is the same route\n that the remains of the Apostle St. James followed until they were\n deposited in Santiago de Compostela.\n <\/p>\n

\n This alternative route continues from Pontevedra through three\n Stages: Armenteira, Vilanova, and finally Santiago, in a total\n distance of 98 kms<\/strong>. Its main peculiarity is that\n the last stretch is done by boat leaving the Arousa estuary to\n ascend the Ulla river to Pontecesures,\n 17 crossroads <\/strong> will guide us in a unique\n maritime-river crossing.\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n