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Los Caminos a Santiago by Castilla y León

By Junta de Castilla y León | 14/05/2019

Los Caminos a Santiago by Castilla y León

Castilla y León is traversed by 12 routes of the Camino de Santiago, which travel in all directions and run through its nine provinces. In addition to the well-known French Way, there are seven "historic" roads: the Silver Way, the Portuguese Way of the Silver Way, the Mozarab-Sanabrés Road, the Camino Vía de Bayona, the Camino del Besaya, the Camino Vadiniense and the Camino del Salvador.- The other four "traditional" roads must also be added.

  • The Camino de Santiago Francés is, in addition to the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the First European Cultural Itinerary, declared by the Council of Europe since 1987. This millenary route crosses the provinces of Burgos, Palencia and León and, with its almost 400 kilometres, it has more than half of the 750 kilometres between Roncesvalles and Santiago de Compostela.

Camino de Santiago Francés

HISTORIC ROADS:

  • La Vía de la Plata is a route of Roman times, which was also used as a road to Santiago de Compostela. It runs through the provinces of Salamanca, Zamora and León, where it joins the French Way. On this route there are many remains of roads and Roman miliaries.

  • The Portuguese Camino de la Vía de la Plata is one of the variants of the Vía de la Plata that begins its journey in Zamora and enters Portuguese lands to continue towards Galicia. Run through the north-west area of the province of Zamora through the counties of Alba and Aliste.

  • The Mozarab Camino Sanabrés is another variant of the Vía de la Plata that also runs through the province of Zamora, on the northern side of the Sierra de la Culebra, through the Tera Valley and the counties of Carballeda and Sanabria.

  • The Camino Vía de Bayona is a Jacobean itinerary that connects the French town of Bayona with the Camino Francés through the province of Burgos and that, according to various documentary sources, was a very busy road between the 10th and 13th centuries.

  • The Camino del Besaya is a route that connects Cantabria with the French Way through the province of Palencia, following the river Besaya. At the time it represented a more comfortable and safe itinerary for pilgrims whose boats roam in the bay of Santander.

  • The Vadinian Road is a Jacobean itinerary that runs through the province of León, uniting Cantabria with the French Way, through the Picos de Europa, visiting on its route the Region of Liébana and its monastery.

  • El Camino del Salvador joins León and Oviedo. In the Middle Ages he was very traveled by pilgrims to visit the relics of the Holy Chamber of the Cathedral of San Salvador and coined the saying: Who goes to Santiago and not to San Salvador, visits the servant and leaves the master?

Historic Roads

TRADITIONAL ROADS:

  • The Camino de Madrid connects the capital of Spain with Santiago, crossing the provinces of Segovia and Valladolid, to join the province of León to the French Way.

  • The Camino de Levante and Southeastern is a route that connects the Mediterranean with Santiago de Compostela through the provinces of Ávila and Valladolid, and enters the province of Zamora by two variants: that of Levante more south, which reaches the capital and the Southeast slightly further north.

  • The Camino de la Lana begins in the province of Cuenca and joins the French Way in the city of Burgos, crossing the provinces of Soria and Burgos. It was a commercial route that, like others, became a pilgrimage route.

  • The Real Winter Road is a route that runs through the area of El Bierzo leonés and was used by pilgrims in the winter season to avoid the climb to Cebreiro. Through old Roman roads, pilgrims reached Galicia in a simpler route.

Traditional Roads

In short, Castilla y León invites you to pilgrimage through these 12 roads with the same purpose: to reach Santiago de Compostela with the backpack full of landscapes, places and experiences. Each road is a blank page where to write, step by step and fingerprint, the very story of each pilgrim, the authentic principal actor of each story.

Choose yours. Good way

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