A very practical spiral-bound guide to discovering the Camino Francés.
The complete, 100% practical guide for a successful journey to Santiago de Compostela and Cape Finisterre.
The Way of Saint James in Spain. The Camino Francés. The best-known, most traveled route to Compostela. Since the Middle Ages, the royal road to Galicia, the path of the great journey where people from all over the world flock, the one that in our Western culture gives the word pilgrimage all its meaning (and all its flavor).
Crossing the Pyrenees beyond Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, you will pass through Pamplona, Logroño, Burgos, León… Tales of distant times, legends, infinite or rolling landscapes, hospitaleros, stone crosses, hermitages, statuary: geography, history, and people interweave their richness into a journey stretching toward the tomb of James the Great.
This fully updated pocket-sized guide offers the route in its entirety in 36 stages: 33 to Santiago de Compostela, complemented by three final days to reach Cape Finisterre. In some places, you will leave the classic route for more varied and beautiful sections. Detailed route description, 1/100,000 scale maps and stage profiles, maps of the main towns passed through, a qualified selection of accommodations at each stage, historical and heritage memo: everything is here for a successful journey.
The Camino Francés will open up to you between solitude and the quest for meaning, between sharing and silence, between effort and reflection.
