Vía de la Plata resources for pilgrims

The Walking Guide to the Vía de la Plata has been fully updated for 2025

The guide to download as a PDF

If you're going to have limited internet access along your Camino, or you just prefer to work offline, then download the guide as a PDF file. All you have to do is enter your email and name at OUR DOWNLOAD PAGE and wait a couple of minutes to get the email with the link to download the guide.

FAQ

FAQ means Frequently Asked Questions, but you knew that already! It's basically everything you ever wanted to know about the Vía de la Plata but were afraid to ask. The answers are here HERE.

Altitude profile

The ups, the downs, it's all there on our ALTITUDE PROFILE!

Charts of places where there is more than one route

There is a few places along this Camino where there is more than one option, you can see the main ones on our CHARTS PAGE.

The latest pilgrim accommodation updates

Things change all the time on the Vía and it’s impossible to update a printed guide that gets published once a year. Any updates we receive after publication are here: PILGRIM ACCOMMODATION UPDATES.

The online guide

The online version of the guide has all the great information available in the other versions, it's handy if you have internet access along the way and you don't want to be bothered with downloads. You can access it from the ONLINE GUIDE homepage.

This is an easy and free (to you) way you can support us financially. When you book a hotel using one of the Booking.com links in the online guide we automatically get a commission. It can be any kind of a hotel, from a luxuious five-star resort and spa with casino and Olympic sized swimming pool, to a humble pilgrim hostel with free tea (teabags not provided).

Public holidays

It's important to be aware of public holidays because they affect opening hours of shops, etc. And the numbers of people walking. Updated for 2025 all thedates are on our PUBLIC HOLIDAYS PAGE.

Ways you can support us

We've been providing free guides to Camino pilgrims since 2012 and updating them every year. This is part of our commitment to supporting the Camino community.

This all costs time and money.

If you've used our free resources and you'd like to help us financially and ensure that we'll still be able to provide this service in the future you can do so in several ways.

1 - Donate

If you found these resources useful and you'd like to support our work so that we can continue supporting pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago in years to come then please consider making a small donativo: CLICK HERE TO DONATE

When you donate you'll be able to download the full guide in PDF format as well as GPS tracks for the whole route which I created while walking and which are updated every year to reflect latest route changes.

2 - Use our Booking.com links

When you use our Booking.com links, either from one of the apps or from the online guide, we earn a commission for every night you stay. It's a win-win, it costs you nothing, the Camino Guide benefits, and a major muntinational company loses some money (that should probably be "win-win-win")

We've organised our booking tool so it's easy to see what accommodation is available along the Camino. Have a look by clicking here Vía de la Plata and the Camino Francés.

3 - Use our Amazon links

By using our Amazon affiliate link. Every time you go to an Amazon website using this link we get a small percentage from every purchase you make. Click here to go to Amazon USA and here to go to Amazon UK. (Sorry, we don't have them for other countries)

The Amazon links on our Packing Page also earn us a commission on any purchases you make. This is the PACKING PAGE.

Just to be clear, we get money and it costs you NOTHING!

4 - Spread the word

All you have to do is share a link to our website wherever you're active on social media.

You can help us greatly by telling other pilgrims about the services we offer!

A short rant...

The Caminos have become increasingly commercialised in recent years with many companies offering package deals for exorbitant prices.

On this website we try to offer an alternative to all the money-grubbing by giving people impartial information for free and telling them that it's perfectly possible to walk the Camino independently, staying in modest pilgrim accommodation, without the help of tour companies, luggage transfers and taxis.

In fact, if you want the experience of walking a Camino then the best way to do it is still to put your bag on your back and start walking and trust to the Camino that it'll take care of you (as people have been doing for almost a thousand years).

Thanks! Gracias! Merci! Danke! Hvala! Buíochas! Merci!

And Buen Camino!

Gerald Kelly

Vía de la Plata

The donativo guide to the Vía de la Plata