Vía de la Plata
15.8 km, 90 m up and 94 m down, through 2 places. Where you stop is up to you.
Every place on the path in order, with the distance from Salamanca. 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.
Waymarks in and out of Salamanca are scant. There are some bronze shells embedded in the ground, but they're not easy to spot. Fortunately, the way out is a nearly straight course due north.
From the Plaza Mayor, exit through the center gate of the main facade onto Calle Zamora. Follow this road to the edge of the old town. The round Iglesia de San Marcos should be on your left with a large roundabout directly ahead. Take the road directly opposite the roundabout, keeping the same direction you've been going. Continue through the next roundabout, and at the third, veer left to keep the Plaza de Toros on your right. From here it's straight on, watching for traffic at the numerous roundabouts between here and the motorway.
The camino keeps to the road most of the way, leaving it only as it nears Aldeaseca de la Armuna.
At the end of this small village, the camino returns to the road and crosses over it. Old arrows might try to keep you on the road, but avoid them in favor of a track that veers right. This track crosses the nearby motorway and then returns you to the road safely on the other side, where you cross back over the N-630 to enter Castellanos de Villiquera.
The camino to El Cubo de Tierra del Vino parallels the N-630 and A-66 closely, crossing beneath the motorway on several occasions. It's flat, exposed walking with little shade.
Distance, climb and descent are measured along the GPS track for this camino — 63 recorded points across this span, the same track the app carries. The town-to-town figures in my data put it at 15.7 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.