Camino Primitivo
Asturias, Spain
Spain · Oviedo, Spain → Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Distance
314 km
Stages
14
Difficulty
moderate
Best months
Apr-Jun, Sep-Oct
Camino Primitivo · Stages and distances
Walking distances for Appy’s stages (14)
| Stage | km |
|---|---|
| 1. Oviedo → Grau / Grado | 26 |
| 2. Grau / Grado → Salas | 21.9 |
| 3. Salas → Tineo | 19.5 |
| 4. Tineo → Allande | 27.8 |
| 5. Allande → La Mesa | 21.6 |
| 6. La Mesa → Grandas de Salime | 15.6 |
| 7. Grandas de Salime → A Fonsagrada | 25.4 |
| 8. A Fonsagrada → O Cádavo | 24.4 |
| 9. O Cádavo → Lugo | 31.1 |
| 10. Lugo → San Romao da Retorta | 18.9 |
| 11. San Romao da Retorta → Melide | 28.4 |
| 12. Melide → Arzúa | 14.4 |
| 13. Arzúa → O Pedrouzo | 18.4 |
| 14. O Pedrouzo → Santiago de Compostela | 20.2 |
| Total | 313.6 |
About
A 310 km journey through time, from Oviedo's ancient streets to the Praza do Obradoiro in Santiago de Compostela. The Camino Primitivo winds through the Cantabrian mountains, where the air is crisp and the scent of pine needles fills your lungs.
With an elevation gain of 6,949 m, this spiritual route is not for the faint-hearted. It was first walked by King Alfonso II in the 9th century, and today, it still seekers of solitude.
Key waypoints like Lugo, with its Roman walls, punctuate the landscape, a reminder of the past, as hikers traverse lush forests and rugged terrain, connecting with history at every turn.
Stages
14 stages
Stage 1Oviedo → Grau / Grado
moderate- Distance
- 26 km
- Ascent
- 309 m
- Descent
- 469 m
Stage 2Grau / Grado → Salas
moderate- Distance
- 22 km
- Ascent
- 586 m
- Descent
- 421 m
Stage 3Salas → Tineo
moderate- Distance
- 20 km
- Ascent
- 723 m
- Descent
- 276 m
Stage 4Tineo → Allande
moderate- Distance
- 28 km
- Ascent
- 619 m
- Descent
- 758 m
Stage 5Allande → La Mesa
moderate- Distance
- 22 km
- Ascent
- 843 m
- Descent
- 534 m
Stage 6La Mesa → Grandas de Salime
moderate- Distance
- 16 km
- Ascent
- 599 m
- Descent
- 911 m
Stage 7Grandas de Salime → A Fonsagrada
moderate- Distance
- 25 km
- Ascent
- 808 m
- Descent
- 425 m
Stage 8A Fonsagrada → O Cádavo
moderate- Distance
- 24 km
- Ascent
- 670 m
- Descent
- 880 m
Stage 9O Cádavo → Lugo
moderate- Distance
- 31 km
- Ascent
- 374 m
- Descent
- 628 m
Stage 10Lugo → San Romao da Retorta
moderate- Distance
- 19 km
- Ascent
- 327 m
- Descent
- 232 m
Stage 11San Romao da Retorta → Melide
moderate- Distance
- 28 km
- Ascent
- 408 m
- Descent
- 526 m
Stage 12Melide → Arzúa
moderate- Distance
- 14 km
- Ascent
- 209 m
- Descent
- 281 m
Stage 13Arzúa → O Pedrouzo
moderate- Distance
- 18 km
- Ascent
- 199 m
- Descent
- 309 m
Stage 14- Distance
- 20 km
- Ascent
- 275 m
- Descent
- 268 m
Points of interest
- University Museum A Domus do Mitreo
University museum beside Lugo's Roman wall, where digging for the building uncovered a Roman house later partly converted into a private mithraeum.
- San Vicente of Oviedo
A monastery founded in 761 according to the Monastic Pact of Oviedo of 781, the oldest document of the Asturian monarchy, though its authenticity is doubted.
- Church of San Martín de Salas
Church of a former monastery, rebuilt in the 15th century and given its bell gable in the 17th, with a single nave of rubble walls.
- Santa María
Historic village, in Grandas de Salime, Spain, at 633 m elevation.
- Camposagrado Palace
Palace. Designated as bien de interés cultural.
- Palazzo del Duca del Parque
Palace in baroque style, in Oviedo, Spain.
- Monastery of San Pelayo
A monastery first dedicated to John the Baptist by Alfonso II the Chaste, then renamed for the boy martyr Pelagius of Córdoba when his relics reached Oviedo in 994.
- Oviedo City
Historic village, in Oviedo, Spain, at 231 m elevation.
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