New website for Camino Torres

[peregrina2000]

I have just received an email from Luis informing me that the official Spanish Camino Torres website has been moved to a new address and that many changes have been made in coordination with the Portuguese association.

https://caminotorres.com/

And I will once again take the opportunity to plug the Torres/Geira combo. Salamanca to Braga to Santiago.

 

[JabbaPapa]

I walked a portion of the Torres last year, though really I was switching between the Torres and the Camino de San Francisco de Asís, and it's great, provided that you can walk about 25K/day or better (I couldn't) ; and you're happy with the mountain hiking after the Portuguese border (avoided it).

The portion of it in Castilla y León is anyway lovely, and those who live there are wonderful and beautiful people.

And there are a couple of great Albergues, plus a couple of more rudimentary Refugios. All good though !!

 

[ortemio]

Nice website. All included!
I will start Sept 14 2023 and will follow your foot steps! I hope the temperatures have come
down a few degrees by then! I have been reading your penguins blog and find it pretty cool.
( https://findpenguins.com/7wlooua0y7gmt/trip/camino-2022-torres-and-geira ) so I will
deviate and follow the Geira track like you did.

 

[peregrina2000]

Nice website. All included!
I will start Sept 14 2023 and will follow your foot steps! I hope the temperatures have come
down a few degrees by then! I have been reading your penguins blog and find it pretty cool.
( https://findpenguins.com/7wlooua0y7gmt/trip/camino-2022-torres-and-geira ) so I will
deviate and follow the Geira track like you did.

Hi, @ortemio,

I would so love to hear back from you on this Camino. There are so many places where I caught glimpses of real people’s lives, it was absolutely wonderful.

My do-not-miss recommendation would be to try to get to the Mosteiro de Pombeiro in the afternoon that you sleep in Felgueiras. It is about 5 km further on from Felgueiras, on the way to Guimaraes, so it won’t be open when you go by in the morning. I got a cab out to visit in the afternoon. My main goal was to see the Romanesque doorway, but there was oh so much more that I didn’t expect. The security guard gives the visits. He was kind of disinterested and unengaged when he started to take me around, a young buff guy with tattoos, but then slowly he opened up and warmed up. And when we got to the organ, he came alive. If you are interested, he will show you the organ and all that he knows about it. It is apparently a very valuable, excellent organ and people come from all over to play. And after you see how the bellows and the knobs work, he will play for you. He is self-taught. He started to learn to play when the organ tuner came to the monastery and needed someone to hit keys so the tuner could test the sound. And from that, this guy taught himself. He doesn’t even read music — he listens to classical music at home on the radio and then comes in and figures out how to play it. It was one of those absolutely unforgettable experiences of the Caminho. Hearing that organ in the empty church was just one of those moments where you take a deep breath and are thankful for being alive to enjoy the beauty life has to offer. I hope you can enjoy it too.

 

[ortemio]

Thanks, I will update as I go, my return is sometime in December so plenty of time to
visit cool places.

 

[amsimoes]

Ucanha tower.

 

[amsimoes]

On Sunday I went to give Dona Julieta a kiss and remember the good times I had in 2018.

 

[RodlaRob]

On Sunday I went to give Dona Julieta a kiss and remember the good times I had in 2018.

she shows unbelievable kindness to Pilgrims. Even helped me bandage blistered toes in 2016! Kisses to her.
Thanks for posting photo.

 

[ortemio]

WHere is Dona Julietta? is this an albergue? or restaurant?

 

[peregrina2000]

WHere is Dona Julietta? is this an albergue? or restaurant?

I learned from @Donovan, who wrote this on another thread.


Hi Laurie, a great coffee stop is at Julietta's place, cafe s. Cristavao, in Pereiro (between Almeida and Pinhel). Having stopped for a coffee, I was invited to share lunch with her and her husband, and she then walked me to the edge of the village. Extraordinary hospitality, which Pelerine commented on as well.