Camino Francés
13.6 km, 42 m up and 61 m down, through 2 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 Valverde de la Virgen. 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.
A village on the road route (N-120) between La Virgen del Camino and Villadangos del Páramo. A bar and a couple of shops. The road walking continues.
Another road-route village along the N-120. A bar and basic services. The terrain is flat páramo — the high plateau country of León, dry and windswept.
Villadangos sits on the N-120 and has more services than the villages before it — several bars, a supermarket, and albergues. The Iglesia de Santiago has a 16th-century altarpiece with an image of Santiago Matamoros. The…
San Martín del Camino straddles the N-120 between Villadangos and Hospital de Órbigo. A couple of bars, an albergue, and a small shop. The terrain remains flat páramo. Both the road route and the scenic route pass near h…
Distance, climb and descent are measured along the GPS track for this camino — 102 recorded points across this span, the same track the app carries. The town-to-town figures in my data put it at 13.4 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.