Camino de Invierno
27.4 km, 269 m up and 291 m down, through 5 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 Rabé de las Calzadas. 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.
There's a fountain and a picnic area 2.4 km outside Rabé. Beyond that, the camino crosses open meseta — flat wheat fields stretching to every horizon. Hornillos del Camino is about 8 km ahead, hidden in a depression until you're almost on top of it.
A shaded picnic area with a fountain sits about 2.4 km outside Rabé de las Calzadas — the only service point between Rabé and Hornillos del Camino. Fill your water here if you didn't in Rabé.
Hornillos is one of the best-preserved examples of a 'royal road' village: a single long street — the Calle Real — stretched along the camino, with every building facing the pilgrim traffic. This layout allowed each hous…
Don't let the endless wheat worry you. Hontanas stays hidden from view until you're almost on top of it — the village sits in a small depression that's invisible from a distance on the flat meseta.
Hontanas takes its name from the fontanas (natural springs) that dot the area. The springs still pour day and night, feeding fountains around the village. In summer, the local pool does most of the refreshing. The villa…
The ruins of the Convento de San Antón are one of the meseta's finest surprises. The remains of the monastery arch over the camino itself, and you walk through what was once a grand pilgrim hospital. The Antonine monks w…
The road ahead climbs to the Alto de Mostelares — the highest point on the meseta section. There's little shade between here and the crossing into Palencia.
Distance, climb and descent are measured along the GPS track for this camino — 234 recorded points across this span, the same track the app carries. The town-to-town figures in my data put it at 27.4 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.