Oia - Baiona
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 11.39 mi
- Elevation gain
- 856 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 709 ft
- Max elevation
- 555 ft
- TrailRank
- 59
- Min elevation
- 14 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Moving time
- 3 hours 52 minutes
- Time
- 4 hours 40 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1555
- Uploaded
- September 11, 2018
- Recorded
- September 2018
near Oia, Galicia (España)
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Itinerary description
Simpler breakfast at 7.30am. ´To go´ brekky available.
TRACK
Leave hotel to your left on your way down and shortly after there is a short cut before the bollard, which is located 100mts or so further down. Well indicated track, although beware of off-road detours. Ocean views from the road and mountains. Moderate slopes with beautiful polished rocks and bush. Goes for a while without Camino marks (check wikiloc around 17km).
Getting into town center, you pass by churches and continue the path which will take you to the hotel. The restaurant La Boqueria with esplanade is nice and is located 30mts to the left, when facing Hotel Anunciada. This time we had dinner at 8.30pm, Estacion Maritima at the pier and never again. Worse service and meal ever.
Lovely small town to do some shopping and with a nice promenade and marina.
HIGHLIGHTS
Monterreal Castle - construction began in the 12th century and was completed in the 16th century, and now serves as a tourist attraction. Three of the castle's towers are preserved: the Reloj tower, the Tenaza tower with a heptagonal base and the Príncipe tower. The first appearance of the castle in record dates from the year 60, when Julius Caesar conquered Baiona. Apart from the Romans, the Visigoths and Muslims also left their marks in the Monterreal Castle, whose name was given by the Catholic Monarchs.
Our Lady of the Rock (Virxe da Rocha) - It was built with granite in San Roque hill, right on the rocks. The magnificent and remarkable Galician modernist architect Antonio Palacios was its author and the work was inaugurated in 1930. It is 15 metres tall and it portraits Blessed Virgin Mary with a boat-mirador in her right hand.
TRACK
Leave hotel to your left on your way down and shortly after there is a short cut before the bollard, which is located 100mts or so further down. Well indicated track, although beware of off-road detours. Ocean views from the road and mountains. Moderate slopes with beautiful polished rocks and bush. Goes for a while without Camino marks (check wikiloc around 17km).
Getting into town center, you pass by churches and continue the path which will take you to the hotel. The restaurant La Boqueria with esplanade is nice and is located 30mts to the left, when facing Hotel Anunciada. This time we had dinner at 8.30pm, Estacion Maritima at the pier and never again. Worse service and meal ever.
Lovely small town to do some shopping and with a nice promenade and marina.
HIGHLIGHTS
Monterreal Castle - construction began in the 12th century and was completed in the 16th century, and now serves as a tourist attraction. Three of the castle's towers are preserved: the Reloj tower, the Tenaza tower with a heptagonal base and the Príncipe tower. The first appearance of the castle in record dates from the year 60, when Julius Caesar conquered Baiona. Apart from the Romans, the Visigoths and Muslims also left their marks in the Monterreal Castle, whose name was given by the Catholic Monarchs.
Our Lady of the Rock (Virxe da Rocha) - It was built with granite in San Roque hill, right on the rocks. The magnificent and remarkable Galician modernist architect Antonio Palacios was its author and the work was inaugurated in 1930. It is 15 metres tall and it portraits Blessed Virgin Mary with a boat-mirador in her right hand.
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