Camino da Estrela from Cáceres to Braga

[Antonius Siemprecaminando]

Hello together,
after having completed several Caminos I am looking forward to do another one: The Camino da Estrela from Cáceres to Braga. Does anybody know if there is an official (say: marked) way from Viseu to Braga?
Any help will be deeply appreciated.
Buen Camino
Antonius

 

[Camembert]

Hello together,
after having completed several Caminos I am looking forward to do another one: The Camino da Estrela from Cáceres to Braga. Does anybody know if there is an official (say: marked) way from Viseu to Braga?
Any help will be deeply appreciated.
Buen Camino
Antonius

About Braga. I have been there many times ,even recently a few times but never have seen any waymarkers at all.
The other day we have been in the mountains of the Serra da Estrela but even there never seen any signs of any camino.
Yes in Viseu we saw some but these are the waymarkers of the caminho Português Interior and lead from nearby Coimbra in the center of Portugal to Chaves in the north of Portugal and on to the Via de la Plata.
Bom caminho.

 

[Antonius Siemprecaminando]

Thank you very much, Albertinho!
This way I am talking about has actually been a Roman road - maybe there is any information about this?

 

[jprogers]

Hi I have an article on walking Salamanca to Santiago via Braga its was titled Camino Torres ..this may help.

http://caminosantiago.usal.es/torres/

 

[alansykes]

Hello together,
after having completed several Caminos I am looking forward to do another one: The Camino da Estrela from Cáceres to Braga. Does anybody know if there is an official (say: marked) way from Viseu to Braga?
Any help will be deeply appreciated.
Buen Camino
Antonius

Sounds an interesting variation on the VdlP, and it would be fascinating to see San Pedro de Alcántara's birthplace. The only thing I could find about the marking was this old piece about the arrows being painted http://www.hoy.es/20081116/sociedad/renace-antigua-estrela-20081116.html
It also has a facebook page, but not a very informative one.

 

[Castilian]

Hi Antonius Siemprecaminando! Welcome to the forum!

This way I am talking about has actually been a Roman road - maybe there is any information about this?

Take a look at the great web of Pedro Soutinho: www.viasromanas.pt/#bragamerida

 

[Camembert]

Thank you very much, Albertinho!
This way I am talking about has actually been a Roman road - maybe there is any information about this?

Probably. There is a lot of information about the Romans in the northern Portugese area ; we even attended the annual Roman festival in Braga in last May.

 

[SabsP]

We are on our regular holidays in Caceres and explored the route by car to the border of Portugal. No albergues but pensiones and hostales for the pilgrims.
Malpartida de Caceres, Arroyo de la Luz, Brozas, Piedras Albas.
Will post pictures later. Scorching hot though..41 Celsius tomorrow.

 

[Antonius Siemprecaminando]

Hello SabineP,

thank you very much for this message!
I am looking forward to seeing your pictures...

I will not start this adventure before May next year - hope it will cool down a little 'till then...

 

[Antonius Siemprecaminando]

Hi Antonius Siemprecaminando! Welcome to the forum!



Take a look at the great web of Pedro Soutinho: www.viasromanas.pt/#bragamerida

Thank you very much, Castilian!

 

[SabsP]

Hello SabineP,

thank you very much for this message!
I am looking forward to seeing your pictures...

I will not start this adventure before May next year - hope it will cool down a little 'till then...

Here are the pics
The landscape
Townhall in Brozas
Fiesta in Brozas
Multifunctional library in Alcantara
Yellow flecha
Bordersigns
River Erjas
First Portuguese village

 

[Antonius Siemprecaminando]

Great pics! Thank you again1

 

[peregrina2000]

Great pics, Sabine-- sounds like you got stuck in a heat wave extraordinaire.

I am confused, though -- does anyone have a map that shows both the Camino Torres and this Caminho da Estrela? Am I right that the Torres heads west and up through Portugal in Salamanca, while the Caminho da Estrela heads west from Caceres? Do the two intersect, merge, or connect at any point along the way?

 

[Castilian]

We are on our regular holidays in Caceres

Enjoy Cáceres and its province! Some nice places and landscapes there!

Am I right that the Torres heads west and up through Portugal in Salamanca, while the Caminho da Estrela heads west from Caceres?

The Torres leaves from Salamanca and goes Southwest till Ciudad Rodrigo where it starts to go Northwest to Braga and Ponte da Lima.

The Via da Estrela leaves from Cáceres and goes Northwest till Braga.

Do the two intersect, merge, or connect at any point along the way?

There are parts of the Via da Estrela on Portugal that aren't marked so I don't know the exact route. If they followed the old roman road, both routes should intersect for the first time close to Vila Cova da Lixa before arriving to Vila Cova da Lixa (i.e.: somewhere Southern) because the Camino Torres doesn't pass through Freixo Cima but Southern while OTOH the Via da Estrela passes through Freixo Cima. From there (Vila Cova da Lixa) to Braga, it would be something like the Levante and the Sureste where they run close to each other meeting themselves sometimes.

 

[SabsP]

https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_de_Santiago_de_la_Vía_de_la_Estrella

The villages on the Estrella.

 

[SabsP]

In these links they name the route the Ruta de la Translana
http://desnivel.com/excursionismo/propuestas-para-el-finde/la-ruta-de-la-translana-caceres

http://www.translana.org/english/index.php

 

[Castilian]

In these links they name the route the Ruta de la Translana

It's not the same route but some of the info there can be useful for those planning to walk the Via da Estrela.

 

[SabsP]

It's not the same route but some of the info there can be useful for those planning to walk the Via da Estrela.

Yes I has some doubts because here they talk also about Zarza la Mayor. But yes useful info. Evenmore I think that the people of this route can give good advice about the Estrella.

 

[amsimoes]

Some sites that I found and which talk about Via da Estrela:

http://passadodepedra.blogspot.pt/2011/05/via-da-estrela-caceres-idanha-velha.html
https://ru.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=10815760
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...ll=40.122166628450366,-7.475779500000044&z=12
http://www.celtiberia.net/es/biblioteca/?id=2848
https://www.facebook.com/pg/Vía-da-...cántara-1576139929280862/about/?tab=page_info
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...&ll=40.42254578931535,-7.371584499999926&z=12
https://es.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=390387
http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=fjswkqdmfnvnfdkh&language=es

 

[Antonius Siemprecaminando]

Some sites that I found and which talk about Via da Estrela:

http://passadodepedra.blogspot.pt/2011/05/via-da-estrela-caceres-idanha-velha.html
https://ru.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=10815760
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?hl=en_US&mid=16bfjtUZPGWvPzbJWqqwdFQV-BwA&ll=40.122166628450366,-7.475779500000044&z=12
http://www.celtiberia.net/es/biblioteca/?id=2848
https://www.facebook.com/pg/Vía-da-Estrela-Camino-de-Santiago-por-el-Puente-de-Alcántara-1576139929280862/about/?tab=page_info
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?hl=en_US&mid=1kWciar4sEQiFBq9owAXiSUszZtY&ll=40.42254578931535,-7.371584499999926&z=12
https://es.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=390387
http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=fjswkqdmfnvnfdkh&language=es

Thank you very much for these links! It really seems that this Camino is still in the planning state...
There are people who know of its existance - that's all.
I will try to find out more and share the results with you.
Thanks again!

 

[alansykes]

This is the map the Cáceres tourist office gives out about the Vía de la Estrella between Cáceres and the Portuguese border at Segura. Four easy sounding days (I'll let you know in 4 days ...) and then information becomes scarcer.