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[QUOTE="peregrina2000, post: 31373, member: 537"] Day 3 – Alhandra to Azambuja (about 24 km). Alhandra has a typical Portuguese old center, a church on a hill, and a wonderful 3-4 km river walk from Alhandra to Vila Franca de Xira. This river walk opened recently (late 2008), and the yellow arrows do not take you there since they were painted earlier. The arrows take you to the highway, which is where you’ll spend most of this stage anyway. So avoiding a few km of highway is highly recommended. This river walk is paved, used heavily by old and young alike. Sello available in the Associaçao de Vela (Sailing Association) right at the beginning of the walk. As you are coming to the end of the river walk in Vila Franca de Xira, you have two different ways to hook back up with the arrows. If you don’t want to stop in town, you can continue to hug the river, past the docks, and through the municipal gardens, where you will see the arrows. If you want to go into town, you should take the pedestrian bridge over the train tracks right before the bull ring. The yellow arrows are there, they take you into the center and then out again to the municipal gardens along the river. You can get a sello at the main municipal building, right on the main square across from the tourist office. Accommodations in Vila Nova de Xira – Leziria Parque Hotel (67 rooms), [url=http://www.leziriaparquehotel.pt]http://www.leziriaparquehotel.pt[/url] or at Residencial Flora, [url=http://flora.com.sapo.pt]http://flora.com.sapo.pt[/url] (20 rooms). Lots of restaurants, shops, cafes. When you get to the end of the municipal gardens, take a right, then a quick left. This will take you to the exit from the town, and you have to get on the N-1 (national highway, not too awfully busy) in the direction of Carregado. This is all extremely well marked, at the Lidl store you turn right and enter an industrial park that goes on for kms and kms. The only good thing is that there’s not much traffic. Once you pass under the superhighway (A-10) the scenery gets a little less industrial, but soon you are back on the N-1 all the way into Azambuja. You pass through or near the towns of Castanheira do Ribatejo and Vila Nova da Rainha. It is not pleasant, but not dangerous, the shoulders are extremely wide. Azambuja has several options for spending the night. I visited the Bombeiros Voluntarios (Volunteer Firefighters) and learned that, yes indeed, pilgrims can stay at this place in many towns along the way. All sleep in one big room, no beds, no mattresses, but they do let you take a shower. No charge, but they ask for a donativo. Private accommodations: Residencial Flor da Primavera, Rua Conselheiro Arouca, 21. Tel. 263-403-263 (the map shows several others, but I didn’t see them). Sello is available at the Junta da Freguesia (these are everywhere in Portugal, they are little neighborhood offices of the municipality, and they all seem to have stamps). Free internet in the Espaco Internet, run by the municipality on the second floor of the small “centro comercial” in the center of town. Azambuja is about ½ hour by train from Lisbon, trains run frequently and cost less than 2E. [/QUOTE]
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