Pilgrims on the road and friends along the way send me changes every day, and they go out the same day. The Camino de Invierno app carries all of it offline, and it's still being built — new features arrive routinely.
Get the appYou've left La Rioja and entered Castilla y León, Spain's largest autonomous community. It's made up of nine provinces; the Camino Francés passes through three of them — Burgos, Palencia, and León. The other six (Ávila, Salamanca, Segovia, Soria, Valladolid, and Zamora) remain off-route but each has its own Camino connections.
The landscape shifts. The vineyards of La Rioja give way to the vast cereal fields of Castile — wheat, barley, and sunflowers stretching to flat horizons. This is the beginning of the meseta, though the true flatness doesn't hit until after Burgos. The villages here are smaller and more spaced out than in Navarra or La Rioja, and services can be thin.
Castilla y León's food is hearty and meat-heavy: morcilla (blood sausage, Burgos-style), lechazo (roast suckling lamb), and cocido castellano are the regional staples. The wines are Ribera del Duero to the south, but along the Camino you'll mostly drink Rioja or whatever the local bar pours.
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.