Vía de la Plata
32 km, 361 m up and 384 m down, through 3 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 Fuenterroble de Salvatierra. 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.
Between Fuenterroble and Morille the camino splits into two distinct routes. The split happens 11.7km from Fuenterroble at a place signposted as Dueña de Abajo.LEFT ROUTE - 31.8km (20.1km from split)This route is slightly longer but has the benefit of hosting a pair of albergues in San Pedro de Rozados. However, that is the only village with any services until Morille. The high point along the way is the Pico de la Dueña (14.4km) and beyond that is the private pig farm Calzadilla del Mendigos (6.8km).RIGHT ROUTE (THE ALTERNATE ROUTE) - 29.2km (17.5km from split)Slightly shorter but with two places to stop for a coffee, this is the preferred route if you are going through to Salamanca.
San Pedro sits slightly off the camino — you can continue along the road to Morille without entering town. Two albergues make it a convenient stop if the distance works. The town has a bar and basic supplies.
10 km from Morille the camino passes near the village of Miranda de Azan (bar), about 300 m off the trail. It's the only stop between here and the suburbs of Salamanca, so take it if you need it.
As you near the city you'll cross under two motorways; the second marks the entrance to the developed suburbs. The camino reaches a roundabout and continues straight through it to enter a park with a pedestrian trail. It follows a small stream and avoids the paved roads until just after passing under a railway bridge. At the road, turn right and continue straight toward the Rio Tormes (18.7 km from Morille) and across it via the Puente Romano. The path then threads through the heart of Salamanca.
The path splits here and rejoins before Morille. Both ways are below, because the question is which to take, and that is not a question two separate pages can answer.
Distance, climb and descent are measured along the GPS track for this camino — 100 recorded points across this span, the same track the app carries. The town-to-town figures in my data put it at 31.8 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.