The Portuguese Way is the name of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage routes starting in Portugal. It begins at Porto or Lisbon. From Porto, along the Douro River, pilgrims travel north crossing the five main rivers—the Ave, Cávado, Neiva, Lima and Minho—before entering Spain and passing through Pontevedra on the way to Santiago de Compostela.
Claustre of Silence in Alcobaça Monastery, an early pilgrim hostel. Conversations were expressly forbidden.
The Douro river and Dom Luís Bridge
Porto as seen from the Douro, with the wharf in sight
Historical Portuguese Way of Saint James from Porto to Compostela, including the Coastal way, the Central Way and the Coastal derivation from Rates Monastery to Barca do Lago.
The Camino de Santiago, or in English the Way of St. James, is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the apostle James in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition holds that the remains of the apostle are buried.
The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
The reliquary of Saint James in the Cathedral of Santiago
Roman bridge with 19 arches over the river Órbigo. The bridge has been integrated into the modern Camino Francés.
St. James's shell, a symbol of the route, on a wall in León, Spain
