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Vía de la Plata in 9 days

9 walking days and 10 nights, from Sevilla to Santiago de Compostela. 9 days' walking, 10 nights, averaging 23.2 km a day. The shortest day is 15 km, the longest 29. It's an example, not a rule. Move any of these towns in the planner and everything after it shifts.

208 km
Total
23.2 km
Average day
29 km
Longest · into Fuente de Cantos
15.1 km
Shortest · into Mérida

Where you sleep, day by day

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DayWalkSleep inPlaces to stay
Night 1startSevilla28 places to stay
Day 122.3kmGuillena22 km from the start2 places to stay
Day 217.8kmCastilblanco de los Arroyos40 km from the start5 places to stay
Day 328.7kmAlmadén de la Plata69 km from the start6 places to stay
Day 425.2kmEl Culebrín94 km from the start1 place to stay
Day 529.0kmFuente de Cantos123 km from the start3 places to stay
Day 623.8kmZafra147 km from the start19 places to stay
Day 720.0kmVillafranca de los Barros167 km from the start4 places to stay
Day 826.5kmTorremejía193 km from the start2 places to stay
Day 915.1kmMérida208 km from the start12 places to stay

Days over 30 km are marked in red. Every town links to its own page with the albergues, the history and what the road into it is like. There are 232 towns on the Vía de la Plata with somewhere to sleep in most of them, so none of these choices is forced.

Programa MOVES IIIMinisterio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico — IDAEXunta de GaliciaInstituto Enerxético de Galicia (INEGA)Financiado por la Unión Europea — NextGenerationEUPlan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia

Esta entidad ha sido beneficiaria de una ayuda del Programa de incentivos a la movilidad eficiente y sostenible (MOVES III), gestionado por la Xunta de Galicia a través del Instituto Enerxético de Galicia (INEGA) en el marco del Real Decreto 266/2021, y cofinanciada por la Unión Europea — NextGenerationEU, dentro del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia.

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