Paco's Bench

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.

In Priegue, a little before you reach us. Fruit, a bench, a stamp for your credencial and a notebook. It is not in the old guidebooks: a neighbour built it. If you pass early, leave it as you found it.