Classic route
Celta
Porto → Vigo · Portugal · Spain
- Distance
- 180 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 2 h 35 min
- Top speed
- 140 km/h
- Operator
- CP · Renfe
- Train
- IC Celta
- Countries
- Portugal, Spain
- In service since
- 1886
Page last updated 2026-07-30 · figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The only train across the Portugal–Spain border in the north: down the Minho, over the Valença bridge, into Galicia — two countries, one ticket, 2 h 35.
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