
You have the option, when you reach Santiago de Compostella, to continue your journey to Capo Fisterra, along the Camino fisterra.
Fisterra or Finisterre means “end of the world”, and Capo Fisterra was in ancient time seen as the most western part of the Iberian peninsula. You will at the lighthouse at Finisterre – Capo Fisterra, find the famous 0-km rock.
The coast here is called “Costa da Morte”, meaning the cost of death because there have been so many shipwrecks along its treacherous rocky shore.
According to legend, Jacob’s disciples sailed his earthly remains to Dugium, which is today known as Finisterre, or Fisterra in Galician, where they went ashore and asked the Romans to bury him in the place later became the city of Santiago de Compostela.
It is tradition to go to the lighthouse – at Capo Fisterra – to see the sunset over the Atlantic ocean. It can be quite breathtaking!
Traditionally Pilgrims burned part or there close, shoes, or other belongings on the cliffs, this har however been forbidden.
