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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.
