Vilalba

Vilalba is a town in Galicia in northwest Spain, with a population of 13,800 in 2024. It has few visitor attractions but makes for a stopover on the Camino del Norte branch of the pilgrimage trail to Santiago. Vilalba is at the confluence of three small rivers on a plateau 480 m above sea level, so nights and winters can be cold. The level terrain makes it a natural transport route and one branch of El Camino to Santiago comes through it; nowadays motorways zoom past. This far north was not a cockpit of war with the Moors so it never acquired the bastions and churches that dot the landscape of Castile, but a castle was built in the 13th century over an earlier fortification by the Andrade tyrants. Vilalba in the 20th century had a tradition of radical journalism and publication, which Franco (himself from Galicia) enjoyed crushing. In modern times it has light industry.

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Vilalba is a stopover point on The Camino del Norte. You can reach Santiago de Compostela in 6 days.