THE WAY FROM A CORUÑA Bruma ROUTE PROFILE A Coruña 400 400 THE GALICIA WAYS cut on the dotted line cut onthedotted 300 300 NOTES 200 200 NORTHERN WAY MY 100 100 Ferrol Neda Barreiros 0 0 ENGLISH WAY Ribadeo 500 500 Lourenzá Mondoñedo Bruma A Coruña Pontedeume Trabada Santiago de Abres 400 400 Vilalba Abadín Ferrol Santiago de Compostela Santiago Sigüeiro Carral Betanzos 300 300 Muxía PRIMITIVE WAY Baamonde Dumbría Ordes Miraz Bruma Miño Neda Hospital Sobrado Vilabade A Fonsagrada 200 200 Lugo Cee A Igrexa Boimorto Paradavella Negreira Arca Castroverde O Cádavo 100 100 Fisterra Ponte Maceira Arzúa Palas de Rei FISTERRA-MUXÍA WAY SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA Lavacolla Melide Rúa de Francos Ponte Ulla 0 0 Padrón Sarria Portomarín Triacastela Silleda Boiro Catoira O Cebreiro Caldas de Reis Samos ESTABLISHMENTS THAT OFFER ACCOMMODATION TO PILGRIMS Lalín FRENCH WAY Vilagarcía THE ENGLISH WAY Aguiño Portas Castro AUTONOMOUS REGION OF GALICIA Cambados Barro PUBLIC HOSTELS Piñor de Cea Neda A CORUÑA PROVINCE 14.35 km NEDA Pontevedra Cambeo NEDA PUBLIC HOSTEL. O Empedrón. s/n. 28 beds Arcade Ourense Ferrol PONTEDEUME Redondela Almacén de Raxoi. Peirao. s/n (temporary) Vigo San Cibrao Paderne de Allariz SEA OF AROUSA AND RIVER ULLA ROUTE Taboadela Augas Santas MIÑO Allariz Nigrán O Porriño Rúa Marismas, s/n. 22 beds Baiona Vilar de Barrio Sandiás Campobecerros Tui 24.44 km BETANZOS Oia Rúa da Pescadería/Rúa Ferreiros Xinzo de Limia Laza A Gudiña Porto de A Canda O Rosal BRUMA PORTUGUESE WAY Bruma Hospital. s/n. 22 beds A Guarda Vendas da Barreira SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA Verín MONTE DO GOZO PUBLIC HOSTEL. 400 beds PORTUGUESE COASTAL WAY SOUTH-EASTERN WAY SAN LÁZARO PUBLIC HOSTEL. 80 beds Hostel of Bruma (VÍA DE LA PLATA) line cut onthedotted A Coruña FERROL-NEDA TOTAL DISTANCE FROM FERROL: 118.39 km TOWN COUNCIL OF FERROL TOWN COUNCIL OF A CORUÑA Miño 14.35 km 118.39 km to Santiago PHARMACY TOWN HALL: 981 944 000/981 944 025 TOWN HALL: www.coruna.es www.ferrol.es When calling from within the province of A Ferrol Xubia ATM 15 m 18 m HEALTH CENTRE: 981 336 633 Coruña: 010 CIVIL GUARD: 981 314 524 When calling from outside the province of A SERVICES RESTAURANT Neda HOSTEL ACCOMMODATION TAXI STOP: Coruña: 981 184 278 12 m Radiotaxi: 981 355 555 HEALTH CENTRE: (Casa del mar): 981 170 359 STORE Teletaxi: 981 351 111 CIVIL GUARD: 062 INTERURBAN TRANSPORTATION TAXI STOP: Hostel of Neda, 28 beds TOWN COUNCIL OF NARÓN Teletaxi: 981 287 777 13.26 km 1.09 km AVAILABLE TOWN HALL: 981 337 700 Radiotaxi: 981 243 377 / 981 243 333 www.naronconcello.org HEALTH CENTRE: 981 385 860 TOWN COUNCIL OF CULLEREDO NEDA-MIÑO CIVIL GUARD: 062 TOWN HALL: 981 677 777 24.44 km 104.04 km to Santiago PHARMACY TAXI STOP: Radiotaxi 981 368 888 / www.culleredo.org 33.93 km Disabled 658 692 186 HEALTH CENTRE: 981 666 151 38.73 km SERVICES THE ENGLISH WAY ATM CIVIL GUARD: 981 654 875 Fene RESTAURANT TOWN COUNCIL OF NEDA TAXI STOP: 981 287 777 Hostel of Neda, 28 beds 32.2 m PUBLIC HOSTEL: Empredrón, s/n HOSTEL ACCOMMODATION TOWN HALL: 981 380 039 TOWN COUNCIL OF CAMBRE Miño STORE Hostel of Pontedeume (temporary) Neda Pontedeume www.neda.es TOWN HALL: 981 613 128 Cabanas 10 m AVAILABLE 12 m 27 m INTERURBAN TRANSPORTATION HEALTH CENTRE: 981 380 297 www.cambre.org Hostel of Miño, 22 beds CIVIL GUARD: 981 314 524 HEALTH CENTRE: 981 675 096 5.62 km 8.05 km 1.69 km 9.08 km TAXI STOP: 981 347 171 981 675 272 CIVIL GUARD: 981 654 730 TOWN COUNCIL OF FENE TAXI STOP: 981 243 333 / 981 674 075 MIÑO-BRUMA TOWN HALL: 981 492 707 981 660 920 / 981 671 402 / 981 664 707 38.73 km 79.6 km to Santiago SERVICES www.fenecidadan.net Bruma PHARMACY HEALTH CENTRE: TOWN COUNCIL OF CARRAL 477 m Hostel of Miño, 22 beds ATM 981 341 429 (Moniños) TOWN HALL: 981 670 002 RESTAURANT 981 341 429 (Tarrio) www.concellodecarral.com Bruma Hostel of Betanzos CIVIL GUARD: 981 340 094 HEALTH CENTRE: 981 672 186 Leiro HOSTEL ACCOMMODATION Betanzos AVAILABLE TAXI STOP: 981 340 019/981 341 006 CIVIL GUARD: 981 670 203 Hostel of Bruma, 30 m STORE TAXI STOP: 981 670 257 22 beds Miño INTERURBAN TRANSPORTATION TOWN COUNCIL OF CABANAS 10 m TOWN HALL: 981 431 007 TOWN COUNCIL OF ABEGONDO 11.23 km 13.55 km 13.95 km www.cabanas.es TOWN HALL: 981 674 909 HEALTH CENTRE: 981 433 104 www.abegondo.es Aerial view of A Coruña SERVICES SERVICES CIVIL GUARD: 981 340 094 HEALTH CENTRE: 981 673 330 A CORUÑA-BRUMA TOTAL DISTANCE FROM CORUÑA: 74.8 km TAXI STOP: 981 430 697 CIVIL GUARD: 981 673 030 Jacobean pilgrimage attracted people and The traces of historical pilgrimages are many 33.93 km 74.8 km to Santiago TAXI STOP: 981 673 526 PHARMACY societies from all over Europe in the Middle and significant along the English Way. The TOWN COUNCIL OF PONTEDEUME written description of the voyage from Iceland Bruma Ages; also from the “Distant Europe”: the so- 24.13 km ATM PUBLIC HOSTEL: Pereiras, s/n TOWN COUNCIL OF ORDES called Scandinavian countries — Norway, to Rome on foot via Santiago by the Icelandic 477 m AVAILABLE Sarandóns RESTAURANT TOWN HALL: 981 433 054 TOWN HALL: 981 680 002/981 680 157 219 m www.pontedeume.es www.concellodeordes.com Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland — and monk Nikulás Bergsson has come down to our HOSTEL ACCOMMODATION HEALTH CENTRE: 981 430 176 HEALTH CENTRE: 981 681 600 above all, the English, Scottish, Irish and days. This feat took him five years, from 1154 to 1159. Two centuries later, during what is known Pontexira Segude STORE CIVIL GUARD: 981 430 031 CIVIL GUARD: 981 680 030 Flemish. All of them helped establish what we A Coruña TAXI STOP: 981 430 460 TAXI STOP: 981 680 733 as the “Hundred years’ war” between France and O Burgo 20 m INTERURBAN TRANSPORTATION know today as the English Way. They came to 57 m 3m SERVICES Galicia by sea from their respective ports, and England, the British went to Santiago by ship. Hostel of Bruma, 22 beds TOWN COUNCIL OF MIÑO TOWN COUNCIL OF OROSO PILGRIMS’ PASSPORT 4.5 km 7.6 km 5.8 km 8.56 km 7.47 km arrived in Ferrol or A Coruña — and also in Pieces of English pottery and coins from the PUBLIC HOSTEL: Rúa Marismas, s/n TOWN HALL: 981 691 478 Viveiro or Ribadeo, on the coast of Lugo. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries found in the TOWN HALL: 981 782 058/981 782 006 www.concellodeoroso.com excavations of the cathedral are proof of the www.concellodemiño.com HEALTH CENTRE: 981 694 731 strategic location of the ports of these two BRUMA-SIGÜEIRO NAME: presence of these pilgrims. 24.13 km 40.87 km to Santiago HEALTH CENTRE: 981 782 457 CIVIL GUARD: 981 691 381 important Galician cities evidently promoted AVAILABLE AVAILABLE PHARMACY CIVIL GUARD: 981 782 146 TAXI STOP: 981 695 529 / 626 686 996 the route. Offerings to the Apostle have also left witness Sigüeiro Bruma ATM TAXI STOP: 981 782 927 619 422 528 477 m CITY: There are two alternatives for the English Way to this route, such as the famous portable RESTAURANT alabaster altarpiece, showing the life of St. TOWN COUNCIL OF BETANZOS TOWN COUNCIL OF SANTIAGO in Galicia: the itinerary from A Coruña is shorter Rectoral HOSTEL ACCOMMODATION PUBLIC HOSTEL: Rúa Pescadería PUBLIC HOSTEL: hostel of Monte do Gozo, James, donated by the English clergyman John COUNTRY: (74.8 km) than the one that starts in Ferrol SERVICES SERVICES STORE TOWN HALL: 981 770 011 hostel of San Lázaro Goodyear in 1456. The piece still survives in www.betanzos.net TOWN HALL: 981 542 300 (118.39 km). Both are full of attractions and the cathedral museum. Sigüeiro INTERURBAN TRANSPORTATION history, and come together half-way to 155 m HEALTH CENTRE (Accident and Emergency): www.santiagodecompostela.org 16.74 km Hostel of Bruma, 22 beds 981 770 711 HEALTH CENTRE: 981 527 000/981 950 000 LEAVING FROM: Santiago, in the village of Bruma, where they The rupture of Henry VIII (1509-1547) with 9.32 km 14.81 km CIVIL GUARD: 981 774 742 CIVIL GUARD: 981 581 611 continue together for the last 40.87 km to the Catholic church, because of his divorce with TAXI STOP: 981 770 202 TAXI STOP: Radiotaxi 981 569 292 Compostela. Catherine of Aragon — the origin of the Church SIGÜEIRO-SANTIAGO AVAILABLE Teletaxi: 981 771 557 THE OF , SIGNATURE: of England or Anglicanism — led to the end of 16.74 km 16.74 km to Santiago Radiotaxi: 981 774 990 The history of these pilgrimages dates back PHARMACY English pilgrimage and condemned this route to the twelfth century. A squadron of Crusaders to oblivion for centuries. This lasted until today, Santiago de Compostela ATM TOWN COUNCIL OF MESÍA PUBLIC HOSTEL: Bruma made up of English, German and Flemish a period of revitalisation and new forms of RESTAURANT PILGRIMAGE TO SANTIAGO: soldiers visited the tomb of St. James in 1147. Santiago de SERVICES TOWN HALL: 981 687 001 pilgrimage. The multiple attractions of Ferrol Sigüeiro Compostela HOSTEL ACCOMMODATION www.concellodemesia.es ON FOOT BICYCLE HORSEBACK OTHER MEANS They were on their way to the Holy Land and and A Coruña are the portico of the route, while 155 m 260 m HEALTH CENTRE: A Barciela STORE part of the expedition also went to conquer Pontedeume and Betanzos are two essential Hostel of San Lázaro, 80 beds Visantoña: 981 694 002 Lisbon, where they helped the first king of enclaves for understanding the “English” history INTERURBAN TRANSPORTATION Xanceda: 981 687 011 Portugal in his struggle against Islam.