skipping O Porriño?

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Scottteresa30

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My husband and I will be walking from Sarria late sept 2016 for our 30th anniversary

• Jul 10, 2024

• #1

We will be starting in Valence in Sept, 2024.
If we bus through Oporrino to miss the industrial area, are we still able to get the Compostela?
And where does the Industrial area start?
Thank you for any help!

 

trecile

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• Jul 10, 2024

• #2

I think that you are talking about walking the Camino Portugués from Valença and skipping O Porriño.

If you skip any part within the final 100 km to Santiago you are ineligible for a Compostela. But there is an alternate route into O Porriño that skips the industrial section.

 

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• Jul 10, 2024

• #3

As @trecile said there is an alternate route around O Porriño and along the river. It’s quite pleasant. Walk from Valenca and make O Porriño your overnight stop. Your next day up to Redondela is then a very reasonable distance. There are several albergues in O Porriño and the downtown district is quite pleasant.

 

SabsP

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• Jul 10, 2024

• #4

The industry is hardly big industry plus the alternative route is very well marked.

Tui - Redondela | Camino Portugués Central | Gronze.com

Etapa algo larga; puede acortarse pernoctando en O Porriño o en las pequeñas aldeas de Veigadaña o Rúa (Mos). La jornada transcurre en un entorno urbanizado y con excesivo asfalto; afortunadamente, en 2013 se acondicionó un itinerario alternativo por el espacio natural de As Gándaras y río Louro...

www.gronze.com

 

Last edited: Jul 10, 2024

HighlandsHiker

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• Jul 11, 2024

• #5

Even with the "industrial area" route, there is a lovely wooded and stream-side entrance to O Porrino and O Porrino is a good town to have a look around and relax. We met a group of "Smile" nurses/medical people on Camino there (volunteers who do cleft lip/palate repair in third world countries). The industrial area wasn't inspiring, but wasn't a huge detraction either. The best parts of the Portugues, to me, were the towns like Pontevedra and especially Tui.

 

grdemedeiros

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• Jul 11, 2024

• #6

Echoing what everyone else has said: there's a lovely "Camino Complementario" to get in to O Porriño. We walked it a few days ago! (I was also apprehensive about this stretch but it wasn't at all like I'd feared.)

 

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Rachel from Seattle

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• Jul 12, 2024

• #7

Ditto what people are saying about the complementary route along the river- take it! Also, I really like O Porriño. It’s a humble but enjoyable town with friendly locals and some nice bars and restaurants.