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Wise Pilgrim APPThe bronze figure in the square is Jose Saramago, Portugal's only Nobel laureate in literature (1998) and Azinhaga's most famous son. His novel Memorial do Convento is set partly in this Ribatejo landscape. The Casa Memorial Jose Saramago occupies the modest house where his grandparents raised him — worth a visit if it's open.
The camino follows the main road through town to a roundabout with a bullfighter statue. Keep straight, passing through Broa.
Saramago was born here in 1922 to a family of landless peasants. He was largely self-taught, didn't publish his first novel until he was 25, and didn't achieve international recognition until his sixties. His sharp, often subversive prose — Blindness, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Baltasar and Blimunda — earned him the Nobel Prize and the lifelong suspicion of the Catholic Church. He's buried in Lisbon, under an olive tree brought from Azinhaga.
The camino follows the main road all the way to the end of town where there is a roundabout with a bullfighter statue in the center. Keep straight here, passing through Broa.Turn right at the next T-intersection and follow the road all the way to Golegã.
