Porto-Guimaraes-Braga

[igor82j]

Hi,
i'm planning to walk the Caminho do Interior, passing through Braga and Guimaraes. There is absolutely no reason to miss these gorgeous places and walk to Barcelos.
However, i haven't found any description/maps of these stages nowhere in the net. It also seems that all guidebooks (including the best one, German Stein Verlag) only contain information to the most popular way (Porto-Barcelos).
I'd be grateful for any links to these stages.
Thanks

 

[Canuck]

Hi Igor,

This topic has come up before with very little results:
el-camino-portugues/topic6186.html?hilit=Porto

Here is a bit more, hoping to be of some help:

If you read French (or Google translate):
http://www.verscompostelle.be/coheport.htm
http://www.verscompostelle.be/cocompor.htm
http://www.verscompostelle.be/Document/portugal.doc (page 2, caminho del interior)
http://www.xacobeo.fr/ZE4.07.Port.Van-10_txt.pdf (page 11, variant B)

And Portuguese (again Google could help):
http://www.jacobeo.net/.../Lisbonne-Lis ... ntiago.pdf
http://acaminhodesantiago.wordpress.com/o-caminho/ (this one has maps).

Cheers,
Jean-Marc

 

[miguel_gp]

You could try the Tourist Office in Braga mailto://turismo@cm-braga.pt or Tel : (Portugal) 253 262 550 and see if they can supply any further information\literature

 

[Peter Robins]

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).

I've not been able to find much info on the connecting route from Porto, but AFAIA it goes to Braga, not Guimaraes. I seem to remember John Brierley at a CSJ meeting saying it was patchily marked, but that was quite a few years ago now.