Thirty Days on the Way

Palas de Rei to Castaneda

Another longish day of walking the Camino.  A good part of the day was under trees along paths and unpaved roads.   Many of the small towns here have stone crosses.  We walked by a 14th century one, the Crucero do Melide, considered to be the oldest in Galicia.  The town we are staying in was well-known to medieval pilgrims.  They picked up limestone rock from Triacastela and dropped it in Castaneda to be processed into material used for the upkeep of the Santiago Cathedral.