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Barcelona, Spain.
List of contents
The Way as it is today
Preparation
Additional services
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
A look around Pamplona
Stage 4
Stage 5
Stage 6
Stage 7
A look around Logroño
Stage 8
Stage 9
Stage 10
Stage 11
Stage 12
A look around Burgos
Stage 13
Stage 14
Stage 15
Stage 16
Stage 17
Stage 18
Stage 19
A look around León
Stage 20
Stage 21
Stage 22
Stage 23
Stage 24
Stage 25
Stage 26
Stage 27
Stage 28
Stage 29
Stage 30
A look around Santiago
On to Finisterre
History
Cycling along the Way
Hostels and services
Index
About the author
Sergi Ramis is an editor at Ecos Travel Books in Spain. He lives in Barcelona.
Summary
The first one-volume walking guide in English to the most popular long-distance route in Europe walked by British tourists.
With the advent of low-cost airlines it is as cheap for the British tourist to go to mainland Europe as to the extremities of the UK – which is why in recent years continental long-distance routes have become increasingly popular with the British walker. Most popular by far is El Camino de Santiago de Compostela, the ancient Christian pilgrimage route that has been travelled for over a thousand years to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, where, legend has it, the bones of St James are buried. This guide follows the most popular route, starting at St Jean-Pied-de-Port in south-west France and heading all the way westwards across northern Spain for 800km to finish at Cape Finisterre on the Atlantic coast.
Now, extending its series of Trail Guides beyond the UK for the first time, Aurum publishes the first compact one-volume guide to the path, fully illustrated with photography, it offers comprehensive route directions, sectional route maps, gradient profiles, a history of the route and details of sights to see and separate chapter guides to the main cities along the way like Pamplona, and a list of accommodation en route.
