Camino Francés
15.8 km, 625 m up and 471 m down, through 4 places. Where you stop is up to you.
Every place on the path in order, with the distance from Borda. 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.
Borda is a small cluster of buildings on the Napoleon Route between Orisson and the Pic d'Orisson. No services. The climb continues steadily from here as you leave the tree line behind and enter open mountain pasture.
A statue of the Virgin stands at the Pic d'Orisson (1,060 m), marking the point where the route leaves the last of the trees behind and enters fully exposed terrain. From here to the descent into Roncesvalles there's no …
The Collado de Bentartea (1,340 m) is the high point of the ridgeline walk, sometimes called Napoleon's Pass. A food truck often parks here selling drinks, snacks, and bocadillos — welcome relief after the long exposed c…
Navarra is the first of Spain's autonomous communities along the Camino Francés. You'll cross it from the Pyrenees to just beyond Viana, where La Rioja begins — roughly 140 km of walking. It's a region of sharp contrast…
The Collado de Lepoeder (1,430 m) is the highest point on the Napoleon Route and the border ridge between France and Spain. From here the route begins its long descent through beech forest toward Roncesvalles, dropping n…
The camino starts on a path to the west of the main road, heading into beech forest before returning to the road as you approach Burguete. It's a gentle, flat walk of about 3 km — a merciful start after the mountain.
Distances are the sum of the town-to-town measurements in my data, not a straight line on a map. Climb and descent come from the altitude of each place listed above, so they under-read where the path goes over a hill between two of them.
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.