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Medieval bridge in O Burgo, Culleredo
The English Way
Stage: A Coruña - Bruma
Pilgrims travelling from England or Flanders docked in A Coruña, guided by the Tower of Hercules – the famous Roman lighthouse. The city rises from a lovely peninsula, silhouetted between the Atlantic winds and the full force of the ocean light.
A Coruña- O Burgo
The city rises from a lovely peninsula, silhouetted between the Atlantic winds and the full force of the ocean light. The route begins in the old quarter, at Romanesque Santiago Church, some two kilometres inland from the iconic lighthouse. It continues on to Real Gate, close to María Pita Square, and then to Os Cantóns, along the lovely A Mariña Avenue. Follow Sánchez Bregua and Linares Rivas streets to Cuatro Camiños. Continue along Fernández Latorre and Pérez Ardá streets to the neighbourhood of Eirís. The route coincides with the king’s highway of Castile. We leave A Coruña and enter O Portádego, within the municipal area of Culleredo.
A Coruña - O Burgo
O Burgo- Ponte da Xira
Take the promenade in O Burgo, an ancient port belonging to the Order of the Knights Templar. This section offers a view of Romanesque Santiago Church and the mills of A Acea de Ama, originally built by the monks of Sobrado in the 12th century.
The English Route continues to Alvedro, descending to the medieval A Xira Bridge over the Valiñas River and entering the municipality of Cambre.
O Burgo - Ponte de A Xira
Ponte da Xira- Sergude
We pass two parish churches along the way: Anceis and Sigrás, which has a Romanesque church. It is possible to make out the profile of a castro – pre-Roman fortified settlement – at the foot of which a pilgrim hospital was built. It is worth making a detour to the municipal capital of Cambre to visit its church, built around 1200. It houses a ‘hydria from the Wedding at Cana’ an earthenware vessel imported from Jerusalem, possibly by a Templar from Santa María del Temple. Continue on to Sobrecarreira, Pazo de Anceis (a 17th-century country house) and cross the northern part of the Municipality of Carral through the parish of San Martiño de Tabeaio. We then come to O Corpo Santo, Belvís, Sergude and Cañás.
Ponte de A Xira - Sergude
Sergude- Sarandós
The next section runs through the Municipality of Abegondo and San Xoán de Sarandós.
Sergude - Sarandós
Sarandós- Bruma
Go through O Rueiro. The route then re-enters the municipal area of Carral for a section – where it crosses O Peito and As Travesas – before continuing on to O Mesón do Vento, a locality in the Municipality of Ordes about one kilometre from Bruma.
In Bruma, where the pilgrim hostel is located (Mesía Town Council), there are traces of the old medieval pilgrim hospital, linked to Santiago Hospital (today, Hostal dos Reis Católicos).
