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    Porto-Guimaraes-Braga

    The route from Guimaraes to Braga and Ponte de Lima is by all accounts now well marked. There's a description on the Camino Torres site http://caminosantiago.usal.es/torres/ Portuguese IGP mapping at http://maps.peterrobins.co.uk/p/guimaraes.html (I'm afraid these maps are rather slow to load)...
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    Anyone got info on the Porto/Maia association?

    ok, thanks, I will remove my links to their website
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    Anyone got info on the Porto/Maia association?

    Sil has just pointed out to me that the website of the Associação dos Amigos do Caminho de Santiago do Norte de Portugal in Porto/Maio http://www.caminhoportugues.org/ has disappeared. Does anyone have any contact/info for this group, and/or know if they still exist?
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    IGP topo maps now available

    The Portuguese mapping agency has recently set up a new public server which I can access for my maps. http://maps.peterrobins.co.uk/p.html for the topo maps on their own http://maps.peterrobins.co.uk/p/overview/portugues.html for maps overlaid with Camino Portugues route These are the rasterised...
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    Starting form Vigo.Guide?

    Vigo is on the coastal route http://pilgrim.peterrobins.co.uk/routes ... costa.html More guides will doubtless be available when this becomes an 'official' route
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    Language limitations

    it's not just schooling. I've seen estimates that 8% of Portuguese were working in France in the 1970s. That's an awful lot of people. Some of those have returned to Portugal (tho there's still a lot in France). Since Portugal joined the EU, there's been inward investment into Portugal, but as...
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    Definitive coast route will be published in September

    A joint agreement of the Xunta, the local alcaldes, the Galician Amigos and the Amigos dos Pazos (who wrote the original guide) http://www.farodevigo.es/gran-vigo/2009 ... 59814.html The Faro de Vigo also reports http://www.farodevigo.es/gran-vigo/2009 ... 59460.html that arrangements for...
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    camino from Faro along border with spain

    another possibility in that area is the so-called 'Via da Estrela', based on the Roman road Merida-Braga. Is supposedly being worked on at the moment. Perhaps if you're in the area, you could go and check it out! http://www.hoy.es/20081116/sociedad/ren ... 81116.html
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    Update on route Porto-Fatima

    according to a newspaper report I found from last May http://noticias.sapo.pt/lusa/artigo/696 ... 3020d.html marking on this route is now complete 'apart from one or two places'.
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    camino from Faro along border with spain

    probably because there isn't one :-) If you can read German, Conrad Stein http://www.conrad-stein-verlag.de/progd ... 3866862302 is publishing a guide to a route through E Portugal in the autumn but I don't know the exact line. There is no official marking or anything. The map on the credencial...
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    Camino Portuguese Easter 2009

    would doubt if it's a problem Laura. I walked from Tui, arriving in Santiago on the Wednesday of Holy Week, and saw precisely 1 other pilgrim - and I never actually met him to speak with, only saw him in the distance several times. Ok, that was in 2001, and no doubt there are more people about...
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    New Interreg project Traslatio

    There's a new joint Galician-Portuguese project as part of the EU's Interreg scheme for promoting the Camino Portugues http://www.traslatio.com/ Seems to be more cultural/heritage oriented than pilgrimage as such, but they plan to produce guides and restore historic monuments. And in a more...
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    Slippy topo maps of Portugal

    not as it stands, no. I would guess in the future it will be commonplace for mobile phones to be GPS-enabled and be able to call up maps like these over the ether - for a small fee, no doubt. Whether Portugal will be a pioneer in that field is quite another matter :-)
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    Slippy topo maps of Portugal

    http://mapas.igeo.pt/igp/igp.phtml you can zoom in to 1:50,000 level
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    Braga-Lugo Roman road path

    An EU-funded joint Galician-Portuguese project called Vias Romanas Atlanticas is currently underway, which traces the course of 2 of the Roman roads Braga-Lugo, via Santiago and Corunna (nos XIX and XX in the Antonine Itineraries). As part of this, a walking route is being developed. The...
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    LISBON TO SANTIAGO

    Pilgrim routes in Scotland St Cuthbert's Way isn't a pilgrim route, simply a route - an attractive one - linking a couple of places associated with Cuthbert. Plenty of pilgrims went to Holy Island (which is of course in England!), but it's highly unlikely any of them followed this route! The...
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    Free new guide for the Camino Portugues.

    don't think so; only in Portuguese. The only English material I've been able to find is on the regional tourist board site http://www.rt-leiriafatima.pt/roteiros. ... K&idreg=12
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    Free new guide for the Camino Portugues.

    the way to Fatima is well used, but I'm not sure what the status is with the continuation north. The CNC haven't told us yet what their route is, so whether it's the same as the Lepere guide or not?? If you do go with this guide, the author (who calls himself Gerard du Camino if you don't...
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    Free new guide for the Camino Portugues.

    beware that the Lepere guide is via Fatima - it's not the same route
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    Free new guide for the Camino Portugues.

    yes, excellent news. I was wondering when AGACS were going to change their website to mention this! And, praise be, it is the same route as the one on the Portuguese Amigos website :-) Have now updated my page on the Camino Portugues, which I hope is now clearer, though there's still nothing...

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