Vía de la Plata
25.1 km, 445 m up and 0 m down, through 3 places, 3 of which have somewhere to sleep. Where you stop is up to you.
Every place on the path in order, with the distance from Jarilla. 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.
From Jarilla you do not need to retrace your steps. Follow the N-630 and you will rejoin the camino.
The 3.3km addition is to the roadside Hostal Asturias.
The camino follows the road out of town to a roundabout, where you turn right to cross over the motorway. At the roundabout on the opposite side turn left to resume walking along the road all the way to Banos de Montemayor.
Not a town but a large campground with a restaurant along the road. The side trip to Hervas (3 km) is worthwhile if you have the energy — a beautiful hilltop town with a well-preserved juderia.
From Banos the camino begins its climb to the Puerto de Bejar. It begins along the old Roman road on the east side of town -- avoid the temptation of following the N-630 (though that will also get you to both the alto and the Albergue El Solitario). The climb to the alto is fairly steep, but less than 3 km.
The camino turns left and away from the road at the entrance to Penacaballera -- if you got distracted and ended up at a roundabout you went too far. From the alto the camino begins its winding descent to La Calzada de Bejar, crossing along the way the Puente de la Malena (4 km).
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.