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Via de la Plata - Walking the Way of St James Northern Spain

Cover of Via de la Plata
Availability
Temporarily out of stock
Cover
Paperback - Laminated
Published
15 Sep 2005
Edition
Second
ISBN
9781852844448
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ISBN (10)
1852844442
Size
17.2 x 11.6 x 1.5cm
Weight
370g
Pages
320
No. Maps
17
No. Photos
78
Originally Published
15 Sep 2005

Via de la Plata

The Way of St James: Seville/Granada to Santiago by Alison Raju

A walker's guidebook to the Way of St James’ southern pilgrim route through Spain to Santiago de Compostela. Nearly 1000km long, the Via de la Plata starts in Seville or Granada and leads north and then north-west through the historic towns and varied scenery of Extremadura, Castille and Galicia. More...

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Seasons

April to mid-June and autumn are recommended. NOT July and August (too hot). Avoid the busy week Read More... before Easter.

Centres

Granada, Cordoba, Mérida, Cáceres, Salamanca, Zamora, Astorga, Ourense, Santiago

Difficulty

Waymarked route. From Seville 6–7 weeks’ walking. From Granada 7–8 weeks; extremely strenuous in Read More... early parts.

Must See

Seville, Alhambra (Granada), Cordoba, Mérida (Roman remains), Salamanca, Zamora, Ourense, Santiago Read More... cathedral
 
 

Maps are a problem in Spain. It would be possible to follow the Vía de la Plata just with the waymarks and this guide but that would be very limiting. Maps are useful not merely as a means of finding the way when lost but also for situating the walk in the context of its surroundings and for making any diversions the walker might wish to make to visit places of interest within striking distance of the route. At present there are no comprehensive, up-to-date Spanish equivalents of the Ordnance Survey maps of Britain available for the whole country, though work on updating the existing ‘military maps’ is underway, and it is for this reason that sketch maps of the route are included with this text. To situate yourself generally, however (though not to walk from), three maps in the Michelin 1:400,000 (1cm to 4km) dark orange series are recommended: 578 (Andalucía), 576 (Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha, Madrid) and 571 (Galicia). These cover the entire route (with street plans of large towns) apart from a 20km section just south of Zamora; if you want to include that section as well you will need 575 (Castilla-Léon) too. Such Spanish maps as are available in Britain can be purchased from, for example, Stanford’s map shop in London, The Map Shop in Upton-upon-Severn, or from some of the larger general bookshops.

 
 
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