Camino de Santiago

Waymarker image: from you to Compostela

Primitive Camino
From Lugo to Santiago

7 days/6 nights.

Itinerary

DAY 1: Arrival in Lugo

Arrive by your own means in Lugo. Accommodation in Lugo. Breakfast included.

DAY 2: Lugo to A Ponte Ferreira (29 Km) (Total 29 Km)

Departing from the ancient Roman city walls of Lugo, you head towards Ponte Ferreira. The journey takes you through San Roman, Guntin, and Pacio before arriving at your destination. In San Roman, you can explore the lovely hermitage of San Román da Retorta, which dates back to the 12th century. Only the façades and side columns of this Romanesque structure remain intact. Close by, you’ll find the Santa Cruz da Retorta church, also Romanesque and from the same era. Upon reaching Ponte Ferreira, you’ll cross a quaint single-arch Romanesque bridge. Accommodation in Ponte Ferreira.

DAY 3: A Ponte Ferreira to Melide (20 Km) (Total 49 Km)

Today takes you to Melide, the crossroads of the Pilgrims’ Roads, where the Primitive Camino meets the French Camino. In the centre of the town, the French Camino and the Primitive Camino meet. Melide offers us a Pilgrims’ Hospital from 1502, currently the Museo de la Terra de Melide (Museum of the Area of Melide). Outside the Hospital-Museum, the Primitive Camino joins the French Camino in the Plaza del Convento. Here, in the most important square of the town you find the Obra Pía de Santo Antón, which includes the Chapel and the Town Hall. The Serra do Careón (Careon Mountains) is the gateway to the Primitive Camino in the area. This route passes through the parishes of Vilouriz and Villamor, both with ample archaeological remains such as forts, stone crosses and, in places, fragments of the paved path where the natural landscape seems to have stopped time. Accommodation in Melide.

DAY 4: Melide to Arzúa/O Pino (14 Km) (Total 63 Km)

After Melide, the Camino takes you through Boente and Castañeda before you reach Arzúa, a cheese-making town. On this leg, the Camino is easy and in good condition, with a mixture of earth and stone paths and minor roads between villages, with gentle ascents and descents, alternating with flat stretches. Accommodation in Arzúa.

DAY 5: Arzúa/O Pino to Amenal (19 Km) (Total 93 Km)

There are still almost 40 kilometres between Arzúa and Santiago Cathedral. The wisest and most logical thing to do is spread this leg over two days, spending the night in either Santa Irene or O Pedrouzo. Arzúa town gives way to O Pino, a comfortable route, with gentler slopes and paths that are always close to the N-547. Accommodation in Amenal.

DAY 6: Amenal to Santiago de Compostela (22 Km approx.) (Total 115 Km)

We are nearly there. The walk is becoming serene. It is hard to know if this is out of fear of finally finishing the Camino and not wanting to or not knowing what to do next. You pass the last villages of the O Pino area by leaf-strewn paths, among the last patches of closely growing, symmetrical pine and eucalyptus forests, in some areas there are even some oak trees. The town of Santiago awaits on a hill, near the airport. The pilgrim is led through the parish of Sabugueira to El Monte do Gozo (the Mount of Joy), the first panoramic view of Santiago de Compostela. From here you find yourself on an urban route that ends at the foot of the Baroque façade of the Cathedral. Obradoiro Square is the end and the beginning. Accommodation in Santiago.

Day 7: Santiago de Compostela

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Included

  • Accommodation in double or single room. Breakfast incl.
  • Transport of backpacks for each of the stages along the route (max. 15 Kg per backpack).
  • Accommodation along the way: Hotels, rural houses, hostels or pensions.
  • Guided tour of Santiago (historic centre): 2h in Spanish.
  • Information folder.
  • Travel insurance with 24-hour telephone assistance service.

Not Included

  • Support car.
  • Transfers IN/OUT

Price

Price per person (double): €440

Price per person (single): €669

Supplements: July +€25

August, September, Easter, Long-weekends, Bank Holidays: +€50

Optional Services ( depending on provider)

  • Discount for third person in extra bed sharing room with 2 adults 10%.
  • Half board supplement (no discount for 3rd person) per person/night €18.00
  • Picnic lunch supplement: sandwich, drink and dessert person/day €9.40
  • Santiago-Sarria airport transfer supplement: (max. 4)* €162.50
  • Santiago city to Santiago airport transfer supplement: (1 to 3 people) €41.25
  • Santiago city to Santiago airport transfer supplement: (4 to 7 people) €63.75
  • Private transfers and/or support car during the route: please ask.
  • Cancellation insurance: please ask.
  • Extra excursions available out of Santiago de Compostela.
  • * FLIGHT DELAYS OR WAITING FOR LUGGAGE CLAIM: €25.00/HOUR
  • ** The prices published on this page come from one provider and are only meant to give you a rough idea of the potential cost.

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