alansykes
Veteran Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Except the Francés
Anybody interested in what the anglo-saxons call the Peninsular War will find much to see on the Camino Torres. It starts near the battlefield of Arapiles/Salamanca (1812) - which walkers on the Vía de la Plata cross on the way into Salamanca. A few days later you arrive at Ciudad Rodrigo, which Napoleon's troops stormed after a 3 month siege in 1810, and was recaptured by Wellington a couple of years later. The battle of Fuentes de Oñoro (1811), which Wellington and Masséna both claimed as a victory, led to the allied recapture of the Portuguese border town of Almeida - which had first been captured by the French in 1810. Further into Portugal, the camino passes through Braga, where Soult inflicted a defeat on the Portuguese in 1809.