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Wise Pilgrim APPBorrenes is a quiet village with a fountain in the main square. It has a pharmacy and a small shop of the typical "lights off but we carry everything" variety (closed Sundays). Bar Casa Marisol does full meals and has wifi, but doesn't open until 12:30.
The Iglesia de San Vicente has a wooden virgin from the 12th century. The church's parish records show that a pilgrim hospital once operated here — 18th-century documents record poor pilgrims dying and being buried in the hospital cemetery, including a pilgrim from France and a German pilgrim.
Continue out of town — resist the temptation to take a small fitness trail on the left. Stay on the road and walk around the bend. A dirt track appears up and to your left; after a short climb, it descends again.
The first road takes you to Carucedo (off-camino). To continue on the camino, go straight and turn left on the next road toward Las Médulas. A short distance along, the camino diverts off the road into chestnut groves. You'll rejoin the road just outside Las Médulas.
Esta entidad ha sido beneficiaria de una ayuda del Programa de incentivos a la movilidad eficiente y sostenible (MOVES III), gestionado por la Xunta de Galicia a través del Instituto Enerxético de Galicia (INEGA) en el marco del Real Decreto 266/2021, y cofinanciada por la Unión Europea — NextGenerationEU, dentro del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia.
