Confraternity of Saint James The Camino Portugués – Oporto to Santiago John Walker www.csj.org.uk 2014 This edition is placed on the Confraternity’s website and may be downloaded free of charge. However, users are invited to respect these conditions: 1. to make a donation, through the donation facility in the Bookshop section of the website; 2. to send comments and corrections, based on their experience of the route, to
[email protected] ; and 3. to note that re-use of the material contained in this guide is governed by Creative Commons terms; please see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by- nc-sa/2.0/uk/ The Confraternity of Saint James in the United Kingdom The Confraternity of Saint James promotes the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and provides support and services to pilgrims. Amongst these services are: Practical Pilgrim Days where around the country they provide an opportunity for potential pilgrims to learn more, a regular members’ bulletin, and a bookshop and library. The Confraternity also promotes research into routes in the UK. The Confraternity publishes guides to many of the routes to Santiago and also runs two refuges for pilgrims at Gaucelmo (on the Camino Francés) and Miraz (on the Camino del Norte). See more at www.csj.org.uk The CSJ can also provide a Pilgrim Record for members - www.csj.org.uk/how-to-get-a-credencial © Confraternity of Saint James & John Walker 2014 ISBN 978 1 906364 43 4 2 Introduction “Santiago has the privilege of having been, throughout the whole of the Second Millennium, the great confluence of the European road network along which the preaching of the Gospels spread, which is the basis for the civilisation of this old continent.