Camino Francés
17.1 km, 50 m up and 24 m down, through 0 places. Where you stop is up to you.
Every place on the path in order, with the distance from Carrión de los Condes. Most are too small to sleep in — a fountain, a chapel, a bar that may or may not be open — but they are what the day is actually made of.
Carrión de los Condes sits at the junction of the pilgrim road and the Río Carrión, a position that made it a prosperous medieval town. Today it's quieter, but enough of the old architecture survives to justify a proper …
When leaving Carrión de los Condes, stock up on water. The next 17 km to Calzadilla de la Cueza have little shade and no reliable water source. In recent years a seasonal roadside kiosk has appeared at roughly the halfway point, but don't count on it.
Several route variants exist between here and Ledigos (6.2 km). A stone marker at the edge of town indicates the options. Most detours take you further into the hills and away from the road — they merge back to the main route before Ledigos. The terrain is open and gently rolling.
Distance, climb and descent are measured along the GPS track for this camino — 84 recorded points across this span, the same track the app carries. The town-to-town figures in my data put it at 17 km.
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.