Galicia signpost

[Hurry Krishna]

There is a large signpost which welcomes you into Galicia. I recall that somewhere on it is the exact distance to Santiago from that point. Am I right? If so, does anyone have a photo of it or remember distance to Santiago as noted on that signpost? Thanks heaps.

 

[Turga]

Maybe you are thinking of this one some distance before O'Cebreiro as I remember. It doesn't tell the distance to SDC though.

 

[Deleted member 3000]

On one of its cleaner days:

https://goo.gl/maps/GqXRwyf9wat

Location information from which you can calculate the straight line distance to the Cathedral:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/b...1ca1ccd884!8m2!3d42.705951!4d-7.0313466?hl=en

 

[Turga]

You both look quite clean

 

[Scott...O]

I took this photo 1 minute after photographing the Galicia marker shown by stgcph above:



(Can’t help questioning why they specify the distance down to the metre...)

 

[Pelegrin]

I took this photo 1 minute after photographing the Galicia marker shown by stgcph above:

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(Can’t help questioning why they specify the distance down to the metre...)

Yes the precision is amazing. "Galicia calidade" of course.

 

[Hurry Krishna]

Maybe you are thinking of this one some distance before O'Cebreiro as I remember. It doesn't tell the distance to SDC though.

View attachment 49516

Thanks. Yes, I think I may have confused this one with another one.

 

[Hurry Krishna]

Yes the precision is amazing. "Galicia calidade" of course.

It was the precise distance that had caught my attention Interesting.

 

[t2andreo]

I always found this amusing, at first. In subsequent pilgrimages, I found them taunting and not funny...

My guess would be that the engraver was getting paid by the digit...

Anything more than one decimal point is total overkill... at least IMHO.

 

[Deleted member 73526]

And here's the tradesman's entrance to Galicia (Camino Sanabres)

 

[susanawee]

I always found this amusing, at first. In subsequent pilgrimages, I found them taunting and not funny...

My guess would be that the engraver was getting paid by the digit...

Anything more than one decimal point is total overkill... at least IMHO.

I Agree with you on this one.

 

[Darby67]

I always found this amusing, at first. In subsequent pilgrimages, I found them taunting and not funny...

My guess would be that the engraver was getting paid by the digit...

Anything more than one decimal point is total overkill... at least IMHO.

I enjoyed the occasional "reminder" but beginning in La Rioja with the 1000m updates...no doubt in my mind it was a well thought out modern form of torment.

 

[Darby67]

On one of its cleaner days:

https://goo.gl/maps/GqXRwyf9wat

Location information from which you can calculate the straight line distance to the Cathedral:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/borne+d'entrée+Galice/@42.705951,-7.0313458,417m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0xd30f44088adf309:0x340dd21ca1ccd884!8m2!3d42.705951!4d-7.0313466?hl=en

Ok, I remember it being a good sized marker, but the gentlemen looks, um, really small in comparison! Wow, it certainly was a clean marker at some point in time!

 

[susanawee]

I enjoyed the occasional "reminder" but beginning in La Rioja with the 1000m updates...no doubt in my mind it was a well thought out modern form of torment.

Like very much and, having a wee giggle to myself as I recall exactly the same feelings.

 

[scruffy1]

True, always very exciting. There is however another sign which I find far more moving, Galicia is such a large place! O Coto! The very first marker engraved La Coruña all but un-noticed as you pass by- marking the province in which Santiago is located lies low on the ground coming into the village of O Coto! On the straight shady road leading up to and just before a small crossroads two cafe/bars on the left and Casa Rurale Somoza opposite turn left for Santiago. Then I really start feeling that Santiago is very very close! Yes I have a photo, lost among the other 2000 in my albums )-: