Camino Francés
8.5 km, 70 m up and 62 m down, through 1 place, 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 Calzada de Coto. 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 Vía Trajana continues through open farmland toward Calzadilla de los Hermanillos. The terrain is flat and the walking quiet — this variant sees far fewer pilgrims than the Camino Real.
The Vía Trajana continues through flat farmland before converging with the Camino Real route ahead of Mansilla de las Mulas.
Bar Elvis, quite possibly the most famous bar on the Camino, occupies the main square. The owner is a character, and the walls and ceiling are covered in pilgrim graffiti — this is one of the few places where writing on …
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.