Camino de Invierno
28.8 km, 141 m up and 73 m down, through 2 places, 2 of which have somewhere to sleep. Where you stop is up to you.
Every place on the path in order, with the distance from Villalcázar de Sirga. 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.
The Iglesia de Santa María la Blanca dominates the village with the appearance of a fortress-church — which is exactly what it was. The Knights Templar built and maintained it, and the military architecture is unmistakab…
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.
Distance, climb and descent are measured along the GPS track for this camino — 156 recorded points across this span, the same track the app carries. The town-to-town figures in my data put it at 29.2 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.