Camino Primitivo: Hiking the Original Way to Santiago: the places
9 places from this post, mapped as a trip.
- AttractionStarting point of the Camino Primitivo — get your credential and first stamp here
- AttractionUNESCO-listed 9th-century pre-Romanesque royal hall above Oviedo
- Food & drinkClassic first-night sidrería on Oviedo's cider street — fabada and poured-from-height cider
- LodgingFamily-run albergue, shop, and restaurant — the classic stop before the Hospitales stage
- Attraction1,146 m mountain pass where the Hospitales and Pola de Allande routes rejoin
- AttractionDramatic reservoir crossing at the foot of the Primitivo's steepest descent
- AttractionWalk the free 2.1 km rampart loop — the world's only complete Roman city wall
- Food & drinkGalicia's most famous pulpo a feira, served at communal benches where the Primitivo meets the Francés
- AttractionJourney's end — the tomb of St. James and the Pilgrim's Office for your Compostela