Camino De Levante
28.2 km, 170 m up and 303 m down, through 4 places, 1 of which has somewhere to sleep. Where you stop is up to you.
Every place on the path in order, with the distance from Higueruela. 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.
Higueruela is a small village on the meseta with basic services — a bar and perhaps a small shop. The village offers a welcome break on the long stretch between Almansa and Chinchilla. The landscape is classic La Mancha:…
Oncebreros de Abajo is a tiny hamlet on the meseta. No services. The name means "lower Oncebreros" — the upper version is just ahead. These are the kind of near-abandoned settlements that dot the Castilian interior, plac…
Oncebreros de Arriba is the upper counterpart to Oncebreros de Abajo. No services. The two hamlets are close together and equally tiny. The meseta stretches in every direction — a landscape that demands either patience o…
Hoya-Gonzalo is a small village on the meseta between Higueruela and Chinchilla. There may be a bar, but don't count on it. The village has a certain weathered dignity — stone houses and a church square that speaks to a …
Rincón is a tiny settlement on the approach to Chinchilla de Montearagón. No services. The name means "corner" — the village sits at a bend in the landscape where the terrain begins to rise toward Chinchilla's hilltop.
Chinchilla de Montearagón is one of those hilltop towns that makes you glad you kept walking. The castle crowns the summit, the old town tumbles down the slope below it, and the views across the meseta are enormous. It's…
Distance, climb and descent are measured along the GPS track for this camino — 202 recorded points across this span, the same track the app carries. The town-to-town figures in my data put it at 28.9 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.