Purchasing Trekking Poles in Porto

JanetEllen

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Time of past OR future Camino

Plan Sept/Oct 2014

• Jun 20, 2018

• #1

Will be walking Porto to Santiago in October 2018 and would like to purchase poles in Porto and donate them at the Pilgrim Office in Santiago. I did this when I walked the Camino Frances in 2014 and it worked out well (airlines). Does anyone know where they could be purchased in Porto? Thank you - Ultreia!

 

onwayhome

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Frances Ponferrada-Santiago,(c1986)
Frances SJPP-Santiago (2011)
Portuguese Porto- Finisterre (2016)
St Michaels Way (2016)

• Jun 20, 2018

• #2

Take a look at the Decathlon store in Porto, they usually stock a good range of walking poles and outdoor gear.

 

B

bmcbride

CVRambler

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Frances (2014), Camino Inca (2015), Primitivo (2017), Portugues (2018), Finisterre (2018)

• Jun 20, 2018

• #3

I had been thinking of doing the same thing. Someone had posted information about this travel store earlier. I was able to go to their website to find information on what poles they had and prices.
Laventura
Website: laventura.pt
Address: Rua Trinidad Coelho n. 40
4050-618 Porto
Phone: 220 113 593

 

Jeff Crawley

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A "Tourigrino" trip once Covid has passed, so 2023

• Jun 21, 2018

• #4

onwayhome said:

Take a look at the Decathlon store in Porto, they usually stock a good range of walking poles and outdoor gear.

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Assuming you're flying into Porto you want the 601 bus from outside the terminal. Get off at INFANTA D. MAFALDA (tenth stop from the airport.) and Decathlon is about a 5 minute walk away.
Go back to the same bus stop to continue your journey into Porto.

 

David Tallan

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• Jun 23, 2018

• #5

JanetEllen said:

Will be walking Porto to Santiago in October 2018 and would like to purchase poles in Porto and donate them at the Pilgrim Office in Santiago. I did this when I walked the Camino Frances in 2014 and it worked out well (airlines). Does anyone know where they could be purchased in Porto? Thank you - Ultreia!

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Thanks for asking this. I'm also starting my Camino at the beginning of October in Porto (arriving by train from Lisbon) and was planning on acquiring my walking poles there.