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Extensive guides for different stages on the Primitivo route (maps, gpx, elevation profiles, distances between towns, natural & historical places worth seeing, camping options, technical details about each stage, & much more). Just pick the stage from the list below and start reading.
Basic Details Starting point: The Cathedral of Oviedo (you can get your pilgrim passport (credential) in the cathedral, more info here). Ending point: The city center of Grado (a town in Asturias with roughly 10,000 inhabitants, two pilgrim hostels and other accommodation options, and all services). Availability of alternative routes: Not really, there are a…
Basic Details Starting point: The city center of Grado (two pilgrim hostels and all services). Ending point: The albergue of Bodenaya (one of the most famous pilgrim hostels on all Caminos, donation based. If you do not feel like walking such a long distance you can also opt for staying in Salas, a nice town…
Basic Details Starting point: The albergue of Bodenaya (one of the most famous pilgrim hostels on all Caminos, donation based). Ending point: Borres, a small hamlet of roughly 90 inhabitants with two pilgrim albergues and a bar. It is the typical starting point for the most beautiful stage of Camino Primitivo that will lead you…
Basic Details Starting point: Borres, a small hamlet of roughly 90 inhabitants with two pilgrim albergues and a bar, the most typical starting point for the most beautiful stage of Camino Primitivo that will lead you over the ancient pilgrim hospitals. Ending point: A small village of Berducedo, roughly 160 inhabitants. The village lives completely…
Basic Details Starting point: A village of Berducedo, with less than 200 inhabitants, but 3 pilgrim hostels, shop, restaurant, bar, and simply everything a pilgrim needs after walking the hard stage over the remains of ancient pilgrim hospitals. Ending point: Grandas de Salime, a small town of roughly 1,000 inhabitants, with 3 pilgrim albergues, and…
Basic Details Starting point: The town of Grandas de Salime, with 3 pilgrim hostels and all services. Ending point: A Fonsagrada, a Galician town with the population of roughly 5,000 inhabitants, four pilgrim albergues, many other accommodation options, and all services for pilgrims. Availability of alternative routes: While there isn’t any alternative Camino de Santiago…
Basic Details Starting point: A Fonsagrada, the first biggest Galician town on Camino Primitivo (after you cross the border from the province of Asturias–no worries, no passport or visa needed :)), with roughly 5,000 inhabitants, four pilgrim hostels, and all services. Ending point: A small town of O Cadavo, which lives basically from two things–animal…
Basic Details Starting point: A small Galician town of O Cadavo, which lives basically from two things–animal husbandry and Camino de Santiago. All services for pilgrims, plenty of beds in the albergues. Ending point: Lugo, a beautiful Galician city of roughly 100,000 inhabitants, which happens to be the only city in the world to be…
Basic Details Starting point: Lugo, the provincial capital of roughly 100,000 inhabitants, a city with a beautiful old town considered by many nicer than Santiago de Compostela. It has one pilgrim albergue and plenty of other accommodation options for pilgrims and tourists. It is roughly 100 kilometers away from SdC, and hence the starting point…
Basic Details Starting point: A small Galician hamlet of Ferreira, with only 60 inhabitants, but three pilgrim albergues, basically living from the Camino, for a good position it has on the way (roughly in the middle between Lugo and Melide, two bigger cities and important places on the Camino). Ending point: Melide, a Galician city…
Basic Details Starting point: A town of Melide, a busy town brimming with pilgrims from March to November, since it is already on the last 100 kilometers of Camino Frances. Primitivo connects to the French way in the center of Melide, so from now on you will share your walk with the pilgrims who follow…
Basic Details Starting point: O Pedrouzo, a village of roughly 900 inhabitants, the most typical last stop for pilgrims on their way to Santiago. All services and endless accommodation options for pilgrims. Ending point: The cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. Where all routes and destinies meet… Availability of alternative routes: No. Obviously once you are…
Basic Details Starting point: Villaviciosa, a town of roughly 15,000 inhabitants, on Camino del Norte. Roughly 2 kilometers after the town you reach a point where you can either turn left, to Camino Primitivo, or continue straight, on the Camino del Norte. You will find in the town two pilgrim hostels and plenty of other…