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25th Stage: from Cebreiro to Triascatela
 The first day of journey in Galice starts in Liñares and continues in the Condesa Hospital. This village also has a church and a hospital for pilgrims with a style and structure similar to those of the hostelries of Santa María la Real and the neighbouring Cebreiro. The nickname "the Countess" that goes with the name of the village is a tribute to the founder of the hospital, at the end of the 9 C.
Travellers then pass through the hamlets of Padorneio, with its 15 C church; and Fonfría do Camiño, which contains the old hospital for pilgrims, Santa Catalina, and the Parish Church that houses a golden silver chalice from the 18 C.


The Route leads to Biduedo, where the smallest church along the Route can be found, San Pedro. In As Pasantes pilgrims can pray in the chapel dedicated to the Virgin of Remedios.
Finally, the Route reaches the end of its 25th stage, Triacastela. Traditionally pilgrims used to take a limestone which they carried along to Castañeda, so that it would become lime that could be used to build the Santiago Cathedral. In the 13 C, Alfonso XI tried unsuccessfully to convert this precious village into a big town. Triacastela once had a hospital and a prison, an unusual circumstance along the Route. Travellers can visit the Parish Church of Santiago, containing a façade from the 18 C and a Romanesque apse. In its interior there is a processional cross from the 12 C.
    

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