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Stage 28 · Camino Francés

Triacastela → Sarria

133km km to Santiago
18,4 km Distance +330 m Ascent −460 m Descent 21,7 km Effort 6 h 48 Time needed · On foot

San Xil or Samos, on to Sarria

A short stage of low difficulty, 18.4 kilometres with 330 metres of ascent and 460 of descent, by the San Xil route, which is the one described here. You leave Triacastela to the right and climb straight away through A Balsa and San Xil among oaks and chestnuts, along corredoiras sunk between stone walls, to the Riocabo pass at about 900 metres. This is the loveliest and loneliest part of the day: tiny hamlets, cattle and hardly a bar.

From the pass it is a gentle descent through Montán, Furela, Pintín and Calvor, with the odd scattered bar, to Aguiada, where the other route joins, the one via Samos, which has followed the Oribio valley and the road and passed the great Benedictine monastery: some six kilometres more, almost all asphalt, in exchange for seeing one of the oldest monasteries in Spain. Take your pick.

From Aguiada some five flat kilometres remain to Sarria, entered up the steep Rúa Maior, with its stone steps and the convent of A Madalena at the top. Sarria is the big town of the Camino in Galicia, with every service, and the last hundred kilometres start here: many more people, and from today the paper credential needs two stamps a day for the Compostela.

Tips

Have breakfast in Triacastela and carry water: on the San Xil route the first reliable bar comes on the way down, after the pass.

If you go via Samos, count on more road kilometres and set off in daylight; the monastery has set visiting hours.

Between Triacastela and Aguiada there is little where you can get a stamp: put your en-route stamp in any bar in Furela or Calvor and do not leave it until Sarria.

In the rain the corredoiras of San Xil turn muddy; gaiters or closed footwear.

In Sarria buy what you need and book a bed in advance: from here on the Camino gets crowded.

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Profile and services

Elevation profile of the stage from Triacastela to Sarria, 18.4 kilometres, with services placed at their kilometre point.

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Triacastela 18.4 km Sarria

The weather

14°C

Fog

Feels like
15 °C
Wind
1 km/h
Daylight
08:39 – 19:49
  1. Today 🌫️ 22° 13°
  2. Wed ⛅ 26° 14°
  3. Thu ⛅ 25° 15° 3 %
  4. Fri 🌧️ 20° 11°
  5. Sat 🌫️ 16° 9° 10 %
  6. Sun ⛅ 16° 7° 9 %
  7. Mon ⛅ 15° 3° 11 %

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Tips from people who walked it

The things that do not expire: where the fountain actually is, which bar opens at six, where not to go in the rain.

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What to see on this stage 12

  1. Igrexa de Santiago de Triacastela Church km 1,2
  2. Igrexa de San Breixo da Balsa Church km 2,1
  3. Capela de Santo Antonio da Balsa Church km 3,6
  4. Igrexa de San Xil de Carballo Church km 5,1
  5. Igrexa de Santa María de Montán Church km 7,6
  6. Capela de San Roque da Furela Church km 11,2
  7. Igrexa de Santo Estevo de Calvor Church km 13,3
  8. Capela da Nosa Señora do Camiño Church km 13,9
  9. Capela da Nosa Señora da Ascensión Church km 14,1
  10. Igrexa de Santa Mariña de Sarria Church km 19,0
  11. Igrexa de San Salvador de Sarria Church km 19,3
  12. Capela de San Lázaro Church km 19,6

What you will find 262