CJKColorado
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2024
For those on the Camino Portugués traditional route coming through Ponte de Lima, Portugal, I’ve noticed some pilgrims are using maps/apps that have them cross on the ‘new’ (highway) bridge, which is the EN201 heavily-used car/truck road.
I live in Ponte de Lima 100meters from the Camino (and I’ve completed the Camino). I’ve now helped several pilgrims leaving the hostel (across from our flat) to find the actual, historic route.
The medieval bridge (culminating in a roman bridge, actually) is not to be missed - and is a national landmark. It is called a few different things on various maps, mainly Ponte Medieval; Ponte Medieval e Romana; or Ponte Romano-Gotica. It is a pedestrian and bike-only bridge.
Traveling across the ‘new’ (EN201 road) bridge also means missing the historic village center - and that means missing the oldest, longest continually inhabited medieval villages in Portugal (and, therefore, one of the oldest in all of Europe).
I’m not quite sure why so many pilgrims are getting routed or re-routed on the highway bridge. Hence… this post.
I live in Ponte de Lima 100meters from the Camino (and I’ve completed the Camino). I’ve now helped several pilgrims leaving the hostel (across from our flat) to find the actual, historic route.
The medieval bridge (culminating in a roman bridge, actually) is not to be missed - and is a national landmark. It is called a few different things on various maps, mainly Ponte Medieval; Ponte Medieval e Romana; or Ponte Romano-Gotica. It is a pedestrian and bike-only bridge.
Traveling across the ‘new’ (EN201 road) bridge also means missing the historic village center - and that means missing the oldest, longest continually inhabited medieval villages in Portugal (and, therefore, one of the oldest in all of Europe).
I’m not quite sure why so many pilgrims are getting routed or re-routed on the highway bridge. Hence… this post.