Camino De Levante
29.5 km, 95 m up and 110 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 Mota del Cuervo. 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.
Mota del Cuervo is La Mancha as you imagined it. A line of windmills stands on the ridge above the town — seven of them, white-walled and dramatic against the Manchego sky. These are the molinos de viento that Cervantes …
El Toboso is the village of Dulcinea — Don Quixote's idealized lady love. Cervantes set her here, and the town has embraced the connection ever since. The Casa-Museo de Dulcinea recreates a wealthy Manchego household of …
Quintanar de la Orden is a working Manchego town with all basic services — supermarkets, bars, restaurants, pharmacy, and accommodation. The town was historically linked to the Order of Santiago, which controlled this te…
La Puebla de Almoradiel is a small Manchego town between Quintanar and La Villa de Don Fadrique. Basic services — bars and a shop. The landscape is vast and flat, dominated by vineyards and cereal fields. The Moorish-der…
Distance, climb and descent are measured along the GPS track for this camino — 178 recorded points across this span, the same track the app carries. The town-to-town figures in my data put it at 30.1 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.