The Portuguese Way has been gaining popularity for years. Like so many other routes along the Camino de Santiago we can find news of pilgrimages since the Middle Ages. One of the most famous pilgrimages on this Camino took place in the first half of the 14th century, with a pilgrim as the protagonist: Doña Isabel of Aragón, widowed queen of Portugal, known as the Holy Queen of Portugal. Granddaughter of James I the Conqueror, daughter of Peter III of Aragon and Constance of Naples, Doña Isabel was queen of Portugal through her marriage to King Don Dinís.
We do not know the route that the Queen followed, but we do know that she arrived in Santiago in July 1325. Her trip must have been very different from ours.
We will start in the beautiful Porto and its imposing Douro River, near the coast we will advance looking for the line, the Spanish border. That space, complex, of exchange and black market, of confluence and cultural dissemination.
Viana de Castelo, Baiona, Pontevedra will be some of our passing points before reaching the city of the Apostle, but this time our trip will end here. We will continue the route to Fisterra and Muxía, where now we will end our route at one of the possible ends of the world.
