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Day 31 Sarria to Portomarín

Friday 7th June 2013

21.5 km - 5.5 hrs

We set off at 7 a.m. and walked the 21.5 km to Portomarín through very pretty rolling countryside.

Leaving Sarria

 

 

 

The latest style in antipodean pilgrim wear!

 

 

 

A typical Galician food preserving house

Spirits at work in this wood?

 

 

Coffee stop at Casa Morgade

 

 

 

Approaching the bridge to cross into Portomarín

 

 

 

Looking back over the bridge from the top of the steps

Portomarin Main Street

 

 

 

 

This temple, known in the past as San Xoan Hospitalarios Church, was moved when the Belesar reservoir was built and the old village was flooded. It is one of the most extraordinary Romanesque monuments on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela.

The Temple, founded by the Military Order of Santiago's knights (Cabaleiros de Santiago) in the 12th century, is crowned by battlements which give it the aspect of a fortress. In the front-main entrance is a large rose window, an eave and a door with three pairs of columns in which it is highlighted the inner archivolt, where the twenty four Old Men of the "Revelations Book" are represented playing their instruments. A scene of the Annunciation is represented on the north side entrance tympanum, and the south wall entrance has rich ornamentation.

 

 

 

 

Accommodation Notes

 

I wanted a single room close to the church in the centre, and went to Posada Del camino cafe, where I secured a single room with shared bathroom for 28 euro. It was simple and basic, but more than adequate. We also ate in the same place in the evening, having the Perigrino Special.