 The city is one of the starting points of the English Way path of the Camino de Santiago.Because of the modern requirement that pilgrims must travel 100 km by foot in order to be officially recognized, Ferrol is the preferred starting point for pilgrims traversing the English Way.The first historical mention of this settlement, then called "Burum" as well as "Arotebrarum Portum" in the history of Pomponius Mela, a Roman historian who wrote in the year AD 43 detailing a description of the "Portus Magnus Artabrorum", the "great port of the Artabri".