Camino Portugués
Lisbon, Santarém, Tomar, Ansião, Coimbra, Oporto, São Pedro de Rates, Barcelos, Ponte de Lima, Valença, Redondela, Santiago de Compostela
Camino Portugués/Caminho Português is a generic term for various routes from Portugal.
This page concentrates on the main route Lisbon-Santarém-Tomar-Coimbra-Porto-Barcelos-Tuy-Santiago. Also called the Caminho Português Central or Camino Central Portugués or Caminho Real, a guide in either Castilian or Portuguese is available for download from the website of the Galician Amigos; or see site of Amigos do Caminho de Santiago da Lusitanea.
Between Lisbon and Santarém, and between Ansião and Porto, this route is coincident with the routes to Fátima developed by the Centro Nacional de Cultura, and marked with blue arrows in the direction of Fátima and yellow in the direction of Santiago. So, between Santarém and Ansião, pilgrims have a choice between a blue/yellow route via Fátima and a yellow route via Tomar.
For description and photos of the Porto-Valenca route, see the site of the Associação dos Amigos do Caminho Português de Santiago (Ponte de Lima) or the website of the Alberghe at Rates. There is further information on the stretch in Paredes de Coura on the website of the Camara Municipal.
For the Spanish section, the Camino Portugués, there is a guide on Mundicamino.
See separate pages for variants north of Porto: the Camino Portugués de la Costa, Porto-Braga, and Caminho Português do Norte/Camino Portugués del Norte.
Confraternity of St James produces English: guide | factsheet
Detailed mapping for sections (compare with list above):
- Lisbon-Santiago de Compostela
| km | cumul km | view on map | |||
| Lisbon | 8.67 | 8.67 | kml dump | ||
| Lisboa - Vila Franca de Xira_ verificado | 32.00 | 40.67 | kml dump | ||
| Vila Franca de Xira - Azambuja _ verificado | 20.48 | 61.15 | kml dump | ||
| Azambuja - Porto de Muge _ verificado | 16.88 | 78.03 | kml dump | ||
| Porto de Muje - Santarem _ verificado | 16.40 | 94.43 | kml dump | ||
| Santarem-Tomar | 62.80 | 157.23 | kml dump | ||
| Tomar-Ansiao | 47.10 | 204.33 | kml dump | ||
| Ansiao-Coimbra | 44.93 | 249.26 | kml dump | ||
| Coimbra-Porto | 136.77 | 386.03 | kml dump | ||
| Porto-Valenca | 122.71 | 508.74 | kml dump | ||
| tui_oporriño | 16.98 | 525.72 | kml dump | ||
| oporriño_redondela | 15.93 | 541.65 | kml dump | ||
| redondela_pontevedra | 20.30 | 561.95 | kml dump | ||
| pontevedra_caldasdereis | 20.77 | 582.72 | kml dump | ||
| caldasdereis_padrón | 18.17 | 600.89 | kml dump | ||
| padrón_santiago | 23.50 | 624.39 | kml dump |
| Section overview | All sections | Individual section (select above) * | |
| Portugal | view | view | view |
| IGN (Spain) | view | view | view |
| OpenStreetMap | view | view | view |
| Bing maps | view | view | view |
| Google maps | view | view | view |
Kml dump of all mapped sections listed above
- opens in separate tab/window
- viewing all sections may take long time to load on slow lines and/or machines; overview loads quickly and is the recommended option
- OpenStreetMap/Bing/Google cover all countries; national topo maps only sections in that country
- there are separate pages for use in mobile devices - see blog post for more details
- a kml (Google Earth) dump can be loaded into a GPS device, either directly or using a conversion program such as GPSBabel or GPS Visualizer
- a height profile for individual sections is available in the route section popup
- * display of individual section does not work in popup on routes overview map
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