The 'last stretch of the Camino de Santiago, the longer path, crossing the charming Galician region made up of outstanding natural beauty, churches, stone houses with slate roofs and rural areas where they speak Galician dialect.
Or Cerberio
The part of O Cerberio Galicia, a village made of stone houses with thatched roofs, famous not only for the terrible weather conditions, but also for being one of the first stations of pilgrimage, when he was here in 836 founded the monastery.
AO Cerberio, according to tradition, in the fourteenth century, performed the miracle of the transformation of the host and the wine contained in the Holy Grail, into the body and blood of Christ.
Continuing, we enter the province of Lugo, certainly the most fascinating part of the journey, including barns witnessing the strong link between Galicia and the earth, plows, carts of wood and elderly men and women who work in the fields.
Samos
In Samos we stop to admire the sixth-century Benedictine monastery, with its two beautiful cloisters, one decorated with mermaids, the other with roses, an imposing church in the eighteenth century and four walls covered with murals that cover the life of St. Benedict.
Sarria
Sarria is the starting point for those who deal only with the last 100 km walk from here the path winds its way from village to village, until Portmarin which is located on a hill overlooking the Rio Mino.
In the nineteen sixties, the city was flooded and all the important buildings, like the beautiful Iglesia de San Juan, were moved stone by stone in a safe place.
Melide
Once in Melide on the main street is the oldest crucerio of Galicia, a crucifix planted in the ground, and the fine ethnographic museum that traces the historical events of the area and explains the former local trades only in the last 50 years.
Lavacolla
Continuing, Lavacolla here, the place where the pilgrims used clean up before arriving in Santiago, which lies at the foot of Monte do Gozo crowned by a huge sculpture that recalls the pastoral visit by Pope John Paul II made to Compostela in 1989.
Santiago de Compostela
The descent along Rua de San Pedro finally enter the magical Santiago de Compostela, namely the square of the magnificent cathedral where, under the Portico da Gloria of the twelfth century, made by pilgrims are the most important rituals.
