This system isn’t perfect and I would prefer (in fact I would love!) if I had the time and money to walk the Vía every year and do the updates as I go along. Many people responded to my call, and this, together with the wealth of information available online, allowed me to keep track of new hostels and route changes. This has enabled me to bring the information to a far wider audience.įrom the beginning I appealed to pilgrims to send me updates and corrections to help me keep the information up-to-date. I started by making the guide available as a free download from my website, Thanks to the positive feedback and encouragement I received from other pilgrims who used it, I decided to try publishing it on Amazon (with the addition of maps). Based on this experience I decided to try to make information more widely available in English. However, if I hadn't been able to access information in Spanish I would have been lost, and I probably wouldn't have even attempted this walk. This didn’t deter me and I managed fine with a print out of accommodation from a Spanish website and some Google maps of the towns with the route roughly sketched on them. Preparing for my walk I had been unable to find any reliable information in English about the routes and accommodation along them. I started writing this guide after I can back from walking the Vía de la Plata from Seville to Santiago via Astorga in the winter of 2009, and finished it after returning to walk the Camino Sanabrés in 2012. If you'd like to find out more about what it's like to walk the Vía de la Plata, go to our Frequently Asked Question. Today the Vía de la Plata is a popular alternative to the Camino Francés for people looking for solitude and a more authentic Camino experience (with its accompanying difficulties). ![]() In contrast to the Camino Francés which is busiest in summer, the busiest times on the Vía de la Plata are spring and autumn. Since then numbers of pilgrims have increased slowly reaching a peak of 14,197 in Holy Year 2010. Starting in the 1980s the revived popularity of the Camino Francés as a walking pilgtimage route led to renewed interested in the Vía de la Plata. Prior to that it was called al-balat, Arabic for the road.īeginning in about the 9th century, as Santiago de Compostela was becoming popular as a Christian pilgrimage site, this route began to be used by pilgrims travelling to and from the tomb of St James the Apostle. This name is of relatively recently origin (15th century) and is based on the belief that the Romans used this route to transport silver from Asturias to the Mediterranean port of Cádiz. Its name in Spainish means The Silver Route. The route followed by the Vía de la Plata was originally a Roman Road linking Asturias in the north of Spain with the port of Cádiz in the south. To see all the formats the guide is available in go H E R E. (if you can't see the images you probably need to disable your ad blocker for this site) You can also buy from Amazon where it's available in print or as a Kindle ebook. The book can be bought from Ivar's online book shop. You'll also get a free copy of our comprehensive guide to preparing for the Camino, to see a sample click HERE! The full guide printed You can download the full guide as a PDF by making a donation H E R E. Recommendations of great places to eat and important sights.Walking notes for points along the route where the yellow arrows may not be enough to guide you.Urban maps of towns and cities and detailed route maps of the Vía in rural areas.Shops, cafés, pharmacies, banks, etc., in all of the places the Camino passes through.Information about pilgrim hostels with prices and opening dates and the facilities available.You can download a sample of the full guide HERE. You can get a copy of the free guide to download in PDF format from the DOWNLOADS PAGE. It contains the same information about pilgrim hostels and pilgrim facilities as the full guide but it doesn't contain the maps. The free guide is, as its name suggests, free. There are two versions of the guide The free guide It was entirely updated in spring / summer of 2023 after I walked the entire route between February and June. ![]() The guide covers the Vía de la Plata and the Camino Sanabrés, from Seville to Santiago de Compostela. ![]() The 2024 edition of the guide is now available Home DOWNLOAD THE FREE GUIDE Donate Accommodation Updates Pilgrim Blogs Camino Spanish Apps Altitude Profile FAQ Contact Us Useful Links Welcome!
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