Camino Francés
31.9 km, 143 m up and 133 m down, through 4 places, 4 of which have somewhere to sleep. 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.
The camino continues along a straight track through flat farmland to Terradillos de los Templarios, about 3 km ahead.
The walking to Moratinos and San Nicolás del Real Camino continues flat and exposed across the meseta. The province of León begins ahead.
Moratinos has been experiencing a slow renaissance, with a few buildings rehabilitated and a growing community of international residents drawn by the quiet and the cheap property. The hillside behind the village is hone…
From here the camino approaches the provincial border with León. The bridge over the Río Valderaduey marks the crossing — unceremonious but symbolically significant.
Distance, climb and descent are measured along the GPS track for this camino — 226 recorded points across this span, the same track the app carries. The town-to-town figures in my data put it at 31.8 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.