Dumbría to Muxía

The second half of the divided stage tackles the longer part of the way to Muxía: some 20.4 kilometres of rolling profile that, without posing severe difficulties, demand perseverance for their distance. The day runs through the rural heart of the Costa da Morte, alternating tracks, paths and small roads among stone hamlets, farmland and stretches of Atlantic woodland.

From Dumbría, the route heads west through hamlets such as Trasufre and A Grixa, in a serene landscape of whitewashed houses and hórreos. The path rises and falls gently, gaining and losing height without jolts, while the pilgrim gradually senses the nearness of the ocean in the vegetation and the light.

The great heritage landmark of this section comes at San Martiño de Ozón, where a monumental hórreo of twenty-two bays is preserved, one of the longest in Galicia, linked to the old monastery of the place. Shortly afterwards, the path passes beside the monastery of San Xulián de Moraime, a jewel of rural Galician Romanesque that was an important monastic and hospitaller centre in the Middle Ages.

After Moraime, the definitive descent towards the coast finally opens up the views of the Atlantic. The route reaches the seafaring village of Muxía and culminates by the sea, at the spectacular Sanctuary of A Virxe da Barca, raised among rocks battered by the waves. It is an ending charged with legend and spirituality, one of the most moving points of the whole Camino de Santiago, where the pilgrim feels they have arrived, quite literally, at the end of the earth.