From Baionato Redondela.

Built between 1695 and 1709 by popular subscription. Between its two towers, a niche holds the crucified saint, flanked by the coats of arms of the Kingdom of Galicia and the town. Inside is a relic, an arm bone, brought from Sigüenza in 1689. Her feast day is 20 July.

A 15th-century pilgrims' hospital, one of the oldest on this coast. It is now the town's cultural centre, but the façade still carries the “Hospital de Caridad” plaque and the medallion of the Holy Spirit that gave it its name.

A fountain-well of around 1560, Gothic in outline, set under an arch in the wall of the Casa de Cristo Rei at O Cruceiro Novo (Santa Cristina da Ramallosa). Three coats of arms sit on the front: the 16th-century royal arms, those of Baiona, and a third now worn smooth. Behind it is a three-metre wash-place. The official Camino guide puts it 1.8 km from the town centre, on the old Camino Real.

Standing halfway across the bridge, with its souls' shrine and an image of San Telmo, patron of sailors. Tradition holds that he ordered the bridge rebuilt on the spot where he had worked a miracle. At its foot, a stone table once used in fertility rites.

Ninety metres and ten granite arches over the river Miñor. Late Romanesque, 13th century, rebuilt around 1232 while San Telmo was bishop of Tui, probably on the Roman road XX Per loca maritima. Pilgrims still enter Nigrán this way, as they always have. At the northern end, a scallop shell carved by local sculptor José Antonio Villaverde.

For centuries the Miñor crossing was where those walking to Santiago were taken in. That role lives on four hundred metres beyond the bridge, at the 17th-century Pazo de As Pías guesthouse, which still keeps rooms for pilgrims.

A 2.3-metre bronze on the Alameda by José Molares, a local resident and the sculptor of Vigo's Jules Verne. It shows a woman pilgrim mid-journey, with staff and rucksack. A plaque at her feet invites you to stop and look out over the Foz do Miñor, and to remember that the Camino is also walked inwardly.

One of the two stone crosses singled out by the official Camino guide on the way through Nigrán, along with O Pereiro. It marks the route among granaries, stone walls and vernacular architecture.

Also known as the Pazo de Cadaval, one of the finest in the province. It already stood in the 14th century and has been a listed monument since 2006. Coats of arms of the Cadaval, Figueroa, Ozores, Montenegro, Ceta, Correa and Urzaiz families are set around the house.

Sixteenth century and also a listed monument, with its own gateway and chapel. Together with Urzáiz it closes the flat stretch: from here the climb to Sanromán begins.

The second cross highlighted by the official guide in Nigrán, already close to Priegue with the hillside behind you.

Paco Alonso, a neighbour in Priegue, began by leaving out a basket of fruit from his land for people passing by. When he saw them sitting on the ground to eat it, he put up a bench. Today there is a table, a bin, signs counting down the kilometres to Santiago, a visitors' notebook, he's on the third, and a stamp for your credencial, a gift from five Catalan pilgrims. It's the most photographed stop on this stretch.

Directly opposite our door. A neighbourhood chapel of the kind that punctuates the Camino without appearing in any guidebook, and the landmark we give when people ask where to find us.

Another granite cross at the roadside, on the way out of Priegue towards the Vigo boundary.

A fountain right on the route, the kind that has been slaking walkers' thirst for centuries. A good place to fill up before the urban stretch.

The millers' path drops down to Samil beach, Vigo's front porch, with the Cíes islands on the horizon. From there the best way into the city is to follow the Lagares river walkway upstream rather than fight the traffic.

A 12th-century church, a Benedictine monastery under Celanova until the 14th century and a parish church ever since. Its three semicircular Romanesque apses survive, along with figured capitals and the original corbels: with Castrelos and Bembrive, it is one of the three finest Romanesque churches in Vigo. Beside it stand a cruceiro and an old fountain.

The Colexiata, which shares the seat of the diocese with Tui cathedral. Its predecessor was wrecked when a powder magazine at O Castro exploded in 1809; Melchor de Prado signed off the new design in 1811 and it was built between 1816 and 1838. It is the finest neoclassical building in Galicia, its two baroque towers the only concession. Inside is the Cristo da Vitoria.

Consecrated by Archbishop Xelmírez in 1114, though almost nothing of the original Romanesque church remains: what you see is 15th and 16th century, with the baroque tower added in 1712. It stands at the highest point of the old town, with a plain façade, a rose window and a Santiago Matamouros above. Its dedication to the Apostle is no accident: this is where the two branches of the Portuguese Way meet.