Camino De Levante
28.4 km, 27 m up and 129 m down, through 4 places, 3 of which have somewhere to sleep. Where you stop is up to you.
Every place on the path in order, with the distance from Gotarrendura. 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.
Gotarrendura has a connection to Santa Teresa — the family had a country house here, and the young Teresa spent time in the village. A small museum and the Ermita de la Encarnación mark the connection. Beyond the Teresan…
Hernansancho is a small village on the meseta. No notable services. The walking through this part of Ávila province is flat and straight — the kind of walking that's meditative if you let it be and tedious if you don't. …
Villanueva de Gómez is a tiny village on the meseta between Hernansancho and El Bohodón. No services. These small meseta villages share a common architecture — stone or adobe houses, a church square, a few streets, and s…
El Bohodón is a small village on the meseta approaching Arévalo. No notable services. The landscape is beginning to show the influence of the Mudéjar architecture that defines Arévalo and the surrounding towns — brick an…
Tiñosillos is a small village on the final approach to Arévalo. No notable services. Arévalo is close now — you can see its towers from the meseta. The walking is flat and straightforward.
Arévalo is a fine Mudéjar town at the confluence of the Adaja and Arevalillo rivers. The Mudéjar architecture here — brick churches with geometric patterns and ornamental towers — is some of the best in Castile. The Plaz…
Distance, climb and descent are measured along the GPS track for this camino — 146 recorded points across this span, the same track the app carries. The town-to-town figures in my data put it at 28.3 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.