Camino Frances
Navarra → Galicia, Spain
Spain · Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port → Santiago de Compostela
Distance
785 km
Stages
32
Difficulty
easy
Best months
Apr-Jun, Sep-Oct
Camino Frances · Stages and distances
Walking distances for Appy’s stages (32)
About
About 780 km of history, culture, and sweat. The Camino Frances unfurls from Puente la Reina to Santiago de Compostela, a journey marked by medieval bridges, ancient churches, and the scent of fresh bread baking in village bakeries.
With 32 stages and an elevation gain of 11,195 meters, this spiritual route demands resilience, and rewards it with landscapes, from rolling vineyards to the flat plains of Castile. Each step carries echoes of those who walked before, a modern exploration of self through the ages.
Stages
32 stages
The winter way to Roncesvalles via Valcarlos
Stage 1Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port → Roncesvalles
challenging- Distance
- 25 km
- Ascent
- 1477 m
- Descent
- 724 m
Stage 2Roncesvalles → Zubiri
moderate- Distance
- 22 km
- Ascent
- 467 m
- Descent
- 882 m
Stage 3Zubiri → Pamplona
moderate- Distance
- 21 km
- Ascent
- 427 m
- Descent
- 508 m
Stage 4Pamplona → Puente la Reina
moderate- Distance
- 23 km
- Ascent
- 486 m
- Descent
- 589 m
Stage 5Puente la Reina → Estella
moderate- Distance
- 23 km
- Ascent
- 539 m
- Descent
- 458 m
Stage 6Estella → Los Arcos
moderate- Distance
- 22 km
- Ascent
- 317 m
- Descent
- 296 m
Stage 7Los Arcos → Logroño
challenging- Distance
- 28 km
- Ascent
- 495 m
- Descent
- 557 m
Stage 8Logroño → Nájera
challenging- Distance
- 28 km
- Ascent
- 311 m
- Descent
- 204 m
Stage 9- Distance
- 21 km
- Ascent
- 307 m
- Descent
- 165 m
Stage 10- Distance
- 22 km
- Ascent
- 247 m
- Descent
- 112 m
Stage 11Belorado → San Juan de Ortega
moderate- Distance
- 23 km
- Ascent
- 479 m
- Descent
- 243 m
Stage 12San Juan de Ortega → Burgos
moderate- Distance
- 24 km
- Ascent
- 126 m
- Descent
- 245 m
Stage 13Burgos → Hontanas
challenging- Distance
- 32 km
- Ascent
- 373 m
- Descent
- 362 m
Stage 14Hontanas → Boadilla del Camino
challenging- Distance
- 28 km
- Ascent
- 323 m
- Descent
- 409 m
Stage 15Boadilla del Camino → Carrión de los Condes
challenging- Distance
- 26 km
- Ascent
- 164 m
- Descent
- 116 m
Stage 16- Distance
- 25 km
- Ascent
- 153 m
- Descent
- 107 m
Stage 17- Distance
- 24 km
- Ascent
- 207 m
- Descent
- 238 m
Stage 18- Distance
- 26 km
- Ascent
- 91 m
- Descent
- 142 m
Stage 19Mansilla de las Mulas → León
moderate- Distance
- 19 km
- Ascent
- 189 m
- Descent
- 144 m
Stage 20León → Villadangos del Páramo
moderate- Distance
- 20 km
- Ascent
- 244 m
- Descent
- 191 m
Stage 21Villadangos del Páramo → Astorga
challenging- Distance
- 27 km
- Ascent
- 122 m
- Descent
- 130 m
Stage 22Astorga → Rabanal del Camino
moderate- Distance
- 20 km
- Ascent
- 355 m
- Descent
- 67 m
Stage 23Rabanal del Camino → Ponferrada
challenging- Distance
- 33 km
- Ascent
- 666 m
- Descent
- 1296 m
Stage 24- Distance
- 24 km
- Ascent
- 329 m
- Descent
- 357 m
Stage 25Villafranca del Bierzo → O Cebreiro
challenging- Distance
- 31 km
- Ascent
- 1559 m
- Descent
- 747 m
Stage 26O Cebreiro → Triacastela
moderate- Distance
- 24 km
- Ascent
- 411 m
- Descent
- 1128 m
Stage 27Triacastela → Sarria
challenging- Distance
- 28 km
- Ascent
- 594 m
- Descent
- 764 m
Stage 28Sarria → Portomarín
moderate- Distance
- 22 km
- Ascent
- 492 m
- Descent
- 572 m
Stage 29Portomarín → Palas de Rei
challenging- Distance
- 26 km
- Ascent
- 483 m
- Descent
- 286 m
Stage 30Palas de Rei → Arzúa
challenging- Distance
- 28 km
- Ascent
- 576 m
- Descent
- 749 m
Stage 31Arzúa → O Pedrouzo
moderate- Distance
- 19 km
- Ascent
- 409 m
- Descent
- 512 m
Stage 32- Distance
- 20 km
- Ascent
- 403 m
- Descent
- 430 m
Points of interest
- Abadía de Nuestra Señora de la Anunciación
Convent of Cistercian nuns, still a working community. It runs a hostel reserved for walkers with a credencial, and the nuns sell sweets to support the church and the community.
- Monastery of Saint Pelagius of Antealtares
A Benedictine monastery born to watch over the newly found tomb of the Apostle James, with twelve monks at first.
- Monastery of Santa Clara, Carrión de los Condes
Monastery, in Carrión de los Condes, Spain, designated as part of UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- San Martiño Pinario monastery
The second largest monastery in Spain after El Escorial, built around 899 by Benedictine monks and by the sixteenth century the most powerful in Galicia.
- Monastery of San Francisco do Val de Deus
A Franciscan convent founded in the early thirteenth century on land the Benedictines of San Martiño Pinario gave in exchange for a basket of fish a year, still delivered in the late 1700s.
- Palacio de Rajoy
18th-century neoclassical architecture palace. Designed by Carlos Lemaur.
- Monument to Saint Francis
20th-century monument, designed by Francisco Asorey, in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, at 256 m elevation, 12 m tall, built in marble.
- Pazo do Espiño
Villa, designed by Jesús López de Rego, in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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