Camino Fisterra-Muxía Stage 1

We leave the praza do Obradoiro and take the route of the now disappeared Gate of the Pilgrim or Gate of the Trinity, downhill by the costa do Cristo, and we continue along the genuine Rúa das Hortas, leaving the Church of San Frutuoso. A plaque at number 37 of this street reminds us that the expert in Galicia, artist, entrepreneur, intellectual and renovator of the famous Sagradelos ceramics, Isaac Díaz Pardo (1920-2012), was born here. We walk on along the Rúa do Cruceiro do Gaio and the Rúa da Poza de Bar and reach the carballeira (oak wood) of San Lourenzo, with its robust, inspiring, centenarian oaks. We go through bucolic countryside to which the poetess, Rosalía de Castro, dedicated some of her finest verses. In her book, Follas novas (1880), she writes, “… aqués vellos carballos, / amostrando as súas raíces / cálva-las redondas copas…”. [Stage details] Start: Santiago de Compostela · End: Negreira 20.9 km · about 4h 20min · difficulty high