25 articles found
Article · 18 Sept 2026
Dave Whitson opens his Cicerone guidebook by noting that the rain in Spain falls mainly in Galicia, and it's precisely that lush, green corner of Iberia that makes planning a walk...
Article · 9 Jul 2026
Every year thousands of cyclists set off from St Jean-Pied-de-Port in the French Pyrenees to follow the Camino Francés, the medieval pilgrim road that has drawn walkers and...
Article · 24 Jun 2026
Just a few hundred metres from Andalucia's famous beaches, the mountains of the Subbetica range rise steeply from the coast to offer some of the finest walking in southern Europe...
Article · 19 Jun 2026
The Camino Francés is the most legendary, most travelled, and most revered of the Camino de Santiago's many routes. The 'French Way' begins on the French slopes of the Pyrenees...
Article · 4 Jun 2026
Only about an hour from the Costa Brava and Barcelona's famous landmarks, the landscape changes entirely. Fresh mountain streams race down forested slopes, trails climb to the...
Article · 4 Jun 2026
Leave behind Girona's medieval walls, narrow cobbled streets and riverside lined with colourful houses, and you will find a network of trails twisting among volcanic cones, rocky...
Article · 1 Apr 2024
The Camino dos Faros, or ‘Lighthouse Way’, is a superb coastal walk that follows the Costa del Morte (‘Coast of Death’) for 200km around the coast of Galicia in northwest Spain. Read on to discover key facts about the route.
Article · 7 Nov 2023
Above the holiday towns of Nerja and Vélez-Málaga on the Costa del Sol lies the mountainous National Park of the Sierras de Tejeda, Almijara y Alhama.
Article · 1 Sept 2023
Find out more about this 21-day coast to coast trail across Andalucía. It was twenty years in the making and is a true adventure through incredible landscapes. Find out more...
Article · 1 Sept 2023
When Spain and long-distance treks come to mind, the thoughts of many walkers will invariably turn to the Camino and the network of paths leading to Santiago de Compostela. The...
Article · 30 Aug 2023
The Pyrenees, the Sierra Nevada, the Guadarrama to the north of Madrid… the list of mountain ranges in Spain is as extensive as the country itself. But in the minds of many, the...
Article · 26 Jul 2023
Starting in Portugal’s capital, Lisbon, and ending in Santiago de Compostela in Spain, the 620km Portuguese Camino – ‘Caminho Português’ in Portuguese and ‘Camino...
Feature · 1 Jun 2023
Guy Hunter Watts, lover of Andalusia and author of 5 Cicerone guides to the region, died in early May, aged 64.
Article · 26 Nov 2022
Sam McGrady gives an honest account of crossing the Pyrenees on foot during June/July 2022, covering the why, when, what and how. She also gives some practical and useful tips for...
Article · 29 Oct 2022
Emma Sawyer quit her job and set off to walk the 500 mile Camino Del Norte – one of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage routes running through Northern Spain
Article · 13 Jul 2022
The Sendero Histórico (or GR1) is a trail that combines great scenery with a gentle lesson in Spain’s fascinating history. Traversing the north of Spain it sits in the shadow...
Article · 2 Apr 2022
There may be many things that make walking the Camino Francés in winter a very different experience to more popular times of the year, but the fundamentals remain the same, found...
Article · 22 Nov 2021
La Palma boasts two long-distance walking routes: The GR130 (aka the Camino Real de la Costa) and the high-level GR131. Looking for a winter sun hiking trip, Tom Martens packed...
Article · 9 Oct 2021
Warwick Sprawson describes his 186km hike along a portion of northern Spain’s GR1, one of the many gran recorrido long-distance trails crossing Europe. They have little idea of...
Article · 11 Jan 2020
The island-hopping GR131 is an amazing trail offering the best possible route across all seven of the Canary Islands. It takes in some of the best scenery that each island offers...