Galicia Tourist Guide 2018

Monastery of Samos

This pilgrimage route begins in a village of Lugo called O Cebreiro and ends before the urn containing the Apostle's remains at the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela . O Cebreiro is located between Os Ancares and O Courel , and it is where you can check out the pallozas , or typical Galician houses build with straw roofs to help the snow slide off them in winter. One of them is home to the Ethnographic Museum, where you can learn about what life was like in this area for centuries, up until not that long ago. This is also where the church of SantaMaría A Real and its Santo Milagro chapel —which houses The French Way

a paten and goblet, true Roman treasures— are located. On the way to Samos, you will pass through Liñares, by Hospital da Con- desa andAltodoPoio, three spotswith spectacular scenery. In Triacastela , which is the end of a stage in the Codex Calixtinus , you will find inns and lodging for pilgrims. In Samos, where trout caught in the Oribio and Sarria rivers is a common treat, you can visit the Mo- zarab chapel of Ciprés and the Mon- astery of San Xulián. A walk through its cloisters and enormous church is a true journey through time.

Continuing to Portomarín, you will reach Sarria, on the Way's most no- table places. Once they depart from here and reach Santiago, pilgrims earn a “Compostela” , that is, a docu- ment verifying that they completed a minimum of 100 kilometres of the route. In the village of Barbadelo you can visit Santiago's Romanesque church, which has been declared a national monument. Nearby is Portomarín , which offers views over the Belesar reservoir. Its waters flooded the town in the past, so several buildings were transferred elsewhere, stone by stone, including the church of San Nicolao. When the

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