Camino De Levante
26.6 km, 56 m up and 67 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 Valencia. 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 Camino de Levante leaves Valencia heading south through the suburbs of l'Horta Sud. The walking is urban and flat — all on roads through Alfafar, Massanassa, and Catarroja before reaching Silla at about 15 km. The official first stage goes all the way to Algemesí (38 km), but Silla is a sensible first stop.
Don't be put off by descriptions of "industrial slog" — there's a short stretch through a polígono industrial, but it's storage depots, not heavy industry. The suburban towns are pleasant enough and give you a glimpse of everyday Spanish life outside the tourist center.
Alfafar is a suburb of Valencia in the comarca of l'Horta Sud. There's a 14th-century church worth a glance as you pass through. The town has basic services — bars, shops — but most pilgrims will push through to Silla. T…
Massanassa is another suburb in l'Horta Sud, on the way to Silla. No notable pilgrim services. The town blends into the continuous urban fabric of greater Valencia — you'll barely notice the transition from one municipal…
Catarroja sits on the edge of the Albufera Natural Park, Valencia's famous freshwater lagoon. The town itself is unremarkable for pilgrims, but if you have time, the Albufera is one of Spain's most important wetlands — i…
Leaving Silla, the camino follows a country road through flat agricultural land to Almussafes. The profile is flat all the way to Algemesí. After Benifaió, it's farmland again — rice paddies, orange groves, and the open sky of the Valencian plain.
Almussafes has a Moorish tower — one of many watchtowers that dot this stretch of the Valencian coast, remnants of the medieval Muslim defense network. The town has basic services. There's accommodation here if you want …
Distance, climb and descent are measured along the GPS track for this camino — 169 recorded points across this span, the same track the app carries. The town-to-town figures in my data put it at 26.6 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.