Pontecesures
Camino Portugues
Pontecesures occupies a pleasant riverside location that is somewhat spoiled by the factory across the Rio Ulla. The town is where the Variante Espiritual (by boat or by road from Vilanova de Arousa) rejoins the main camino.
The bridge here is where, according to the Translatio legend, the stone boat carrying Santiago's body arrived. The Roman bridge foundations survive beneath the current structure. The camino crosses the river into the approach to Padron.
The name Pontecesures derives from Pons Caesaris — Caesar's Bridge. The Roman crossing here connected the Ria de Arousa with the interior, and the site has been a point of arrival since antiquity. The Translatio tradition — the story that Santiago's body was brought by boat from Jaffa to this exact point — made Pontecesures one of the most symbolically important places on any Camino.
The arrows go under the road and over the bridge and across the Río Sar to Aduana. Here it runs all the way into Padrón.
Accommodation in Pontecesures.
| Albergue de Peregrinos Pontecesures 10€ 54 |
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