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Muxia or Finisterre?

mary flo

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Camino Frances: March 15-April 15 2016

Camino Portugues: 2019
Hi all! Hoping for some feedback from the group on this...I am walking the Camino Frances in March/April this year and should be in Santiago by April 17 and then I've got two days to relax (travelling by bus) in Muxia or Finisterre. Trying to decide where I should relax for those last two days before heading home to Boston. They both look lovely, need help!
Thank you!! :D
 
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Hello and best wishes for your upcoming travels! We walked from Burgos to Santiago in August and then walked on to Finisterre followed by Muxia. If I had to choose between the two Muxia would come out on top. To be honest the lighthouse at Finisterre was not the experience we had hoped but finishing off in Muxia just "felt right". It is very rugged coastline out there and to be honest there is not much to do beyond walking around the town but we found it charming, and a perfect ending for our experience. Buen Camino!
 
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Hi Mary Flo. Muxia gets my vote too! Both places have their appeal, but IMO Muxia is a nicer place to spend 2 days. I enjoyed seeing Finisterre and walking to the lighthouse, but I didn't feel any desire to spend time there. I absolutely love Muxia and look forward to going back.

It's a very personal thing, however. Others will no doubt extol the virtues of spending 2 days in Finisterre!

Buen Camino.
 
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Finistera has become too crowded, too commercial, too busy. Muxia hands down, 2 streets, a couple of bar/restaurants, a church in an amazing position, with a 0 kilometer post, and a Compostela/Finistera type document just as tacky as the one from F. You can get it in the library. In the village just before Muxia is an amazing Romanesque church try and catch it on a Sunday, I was able to walk in but after 20 minutes realized that it was a funeral and eased out. It is worth the small effort.
 
Muxia gets my vote too. Alburgue Bela Muxia is excellent: you can have a pilgrim dorm or the full works if you wish to :) The staff are super friendly and helpful. There is also a top class restaurant attached which provides superb seafood: perfect for a post camino splurge.

Take care, be safe.
 
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Thank you for all your feedback! I don't want to plan too much but wanted to have a place to stay at the end of my journey.

Much appreciated! I'm so ready to go...only 59 days...but who's counting?! :rolleyes:
 
Muxia gets my vote too. Alburgue Bela Muxia is excellent: you can have a pilgrim dorm or the full works if you wish to :) The staff are super friendly and helpful. There is also a top class restaurant attached which provides superb seafood: perfect for a post camino splurge.

Take care, be safe.

I agree 100%. A room at Albergue Bela Muxia is a great treat at the end of a Camino (although the dorms are good too). Such nice people.

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Muxia.... No doubt about it. Muxia is really beautiful without the hustle and bustle if Finisterre.
 
Hi all! Hoping for some feedback from the group on this...I am walking the Camino Frances in March/April this year and should be in Santiago by April 17 and then I've got two days to relax (travelling by bus) in Muxia or Finisterre. Trying to decide where I should relax for those last two days before heading home to Boston. They both look lovely, need help!
Thank you!! :D
muxía, no doubt
 
Hi all! Hoping for some feedback from the group on this...I am walking the Camino Frances in March/April this year and should be in Santiago by April 17 and then I've got two days to relax (travelling by bus) in Muxia or Finisterre. Trying to decide where I should relax for those last two days before heading home to Boston. They both look lovely, need help!
Thank you!! :D
I say see both! I took a bus to Muxia for one night. Then a bus to Finesterre for one night. Then a bus back to Santiago. Each town has its own unique flavor. The church on the rocks by the sea in Muxia was amazing. Finesterre was much more crowded, and more like a beach town. Both are wonderful. It was a more important sense of closure for me than the crowded scene in Santiago. I was there for the feast day, July 25, 2015.
 
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Hi all! Hoping for some feedback from the group on this...I am walking the Camino Frances in March/April this year and should be in Santiago by April 17 and then I've got two days to relax (travelling by bus) in Muxia or Finisterre. Trying to decide where I should relax for those last two days before heading home to Boston. They both look lovely, need help!
Thank you!! :D

(Here is my more "eloquent reply" that I referenced on Facebook- it did save my draft after all!)

Hi Mary- saw your post on the Facebook APOC group as well :)
Both are very lovely towns with their own charm, I love different things about each... The most important thing is that there is no wrong decision here. I honestly would not even worry about this just yet-- mostly because you have no idea how you will be feeling or who you will have met by the end of your Camino.

People change their plans in a blink of an eye on the Camino. I myself walked my second Camino with a very important goal of walking to Finisterre, which I had not done the first time around. However, in Santiago I decided that I would instead spend my last few days with the Camino Family, which include renting a car and driving to both Muxia and Finisterre. We watched the sunset at "the end of the world", we watched the ocean crash onto huge boulders from atop a hill in Muxia, we found "hidden" beaches... It was all amazing.

My main point is to just allow yourself the flexibility to do whatever you want once the time comes when you know what you want to do :) And again, there is so wrong decision! I know the popular vote here is for Muxia, but there is something to be said for seeing that final mile marker at Finisterre and (possibly) feeling a sense of accomplishment and completion.
 
Muxia gets my vote too. Alburgue Bela Muxia is excellent: you can have a pilgrim dorm or the full works if you wish to :) The staff are super friendly and helpful. There is also a top class restaurant attached which provides superb seafood: perfect for a post camino splurge.

Take care, be safe.
Oh yes to Bella Muxia! We stayed in a private room but took advantage of the communal kitchen to make lunch, then treated ourselves to dinner at the restaurant you mention.
 
Both. We even enjoyed Lires. Try and take a few more days holiday and walk between Finisterre and Muxia. The best part of the Camino.
 
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You didn't say whether you are allowing any time in Santiago. The two days we spent there reuniting with our Camino family members, going to the moving mass and enjoying the charming town definitely trumped the days we spent in Finnisterre and Muxia.
So if you are choosing where to spend you time, I would stay in Santiago if you didn't allow time there, otherwise Bella Muxia is wonderful and you can take a cab to Finnisterre and walk to the 0 mile marker.
 
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You didn't say whether you are allowing any time in Santiago. The two days we spent there reuniting with our Camino family members, going to the moving mass and enjoying the charming town definitely trumped the days we spent in Finnisterre and Muxia.
So if you are choosing where to spend you time, I would stay in Santiago if you didn't allow time there, otherwise Bella Muxia is wonderful and you can take a cab to Finnisterre and walk to the 0 mile marker.
I will have a day in Santiago. I hope to have some extra time - I don't want to over plan but I'm pretty fast so I hope to have some wiggle room beyond the few extra days I have blocked out for resting & exploration. I appreciate all the info everyone!
 
Muxia, definitely! It's a town that has been able to keep its character as a fishing village. Finisterre, as mentioned, really has changed a lot and become so commercialized. Muxia will not disappoint you!
 
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Both of them deserves a visit.Both of them are nice on there own way.Just as people are!
 
Hi all! Hoping for some feedback from the group on this...I am walking the Camino Frances in March/April this year and should be in Santiago by April 17 and then I've got two days to relax (travelling by bus) in Muxia or Finisterre. Trying to decide where I should relax for those last two days before heading home to Boston. They both look lovely, need help!
Thank you!! :D
If you want to stay somewhere to relax, there is a little fishing village just before Finisterre, Seafood is excellent. Just before Muxia there is an albergue called the Little Fox House (think thats the correct name) and its specifically for pilgrims wanting to unwind before going home. I am told the food there is great. You could of course do what I did. Go on a guided tour bus to Muxia, Finisterre, Noia and a few other places of interest. Its only one day but good fun and very relaxing
 
I walked from Muxia to Finisterra. I enjoyed both but sitting on that rocky crag with other pilgrims watching the sunset at "the end of the world" was the PERFECT ending for my camino!
 
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