Camino Primitivo - Etapa 9, Lugo to As Seixas

23.4.2013

31km

La Catedral de Santa María, Neo-Classical main entrance. Faces the Santiago Gate (explained and pictured below). After a few minutes more inside the Cathedral, my Camino resumes here. Though the break was necessary and Lugo was a delight, it felt very good to be back in my pack and on the way.

Calzada de Ponte. Though it is outside the gentrified old town and is now a bit seedy, its medieval origins still are apparent; and it still runs down to the Roman bridge.

Houses here still are built to last. Constructed with terra-cotta blocks and clad in granite. 

Camino-side well-wishers outside Lugo.

Finca gate, between Lugo and Burgo do San Vicente.

Burgo do San Vicente.

My lunch partner at Bar As Searas in Burgo. We shared an excellent jamón tortilla bocadillo.

Even though this is not the baking, parched part of Spain, it certainly is not north Europe; and the ears and nose had gotten all the sun they could take. So, I bought a wide-brimmed hat in Lugo. 

This is one reason why, in most of the posted death notices I see in the villages, the newly-departed are at least 90 years old. 

The Way. 

Farmhouse typical of central Galicia, between Hospital and Crecente.

A nice shady place for a brief rest.

San Román da Retorta.

Galician hórreos.

La Iglesia de Santa Cruz da Retorta (12th century).

Third-century Roman milestone.

The Via Romana (unfortunately, now paved over with asphalt), leaving San Román da Retorta.

The Way, and thorn bushes, between San Román and Ferreira.

I told these cows they would have no interest in the almonds I was eating.

Abandoned barn in village before Ferreira.

Roman footbridge in Ferreira.

Eucalyptus grove.

San Xorxe pilgrim rest park outside Bouzachás.

The excellent, new Albergue de Peregrinos in As Seixas.