Camino Francés
Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port → Santiago de Compostela
The Camino Francés crosses northern Spain from the Pyrenees toward Santiago de Compostela, passing through historic towns, open countryside and some of the best-known landscapes of the Camino de Santiago.
CaminoFinder currently maps the route from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to Santiago using certified public route data. This page is a route overview. Day-by-day stages are not yet provided.
At a glance
Essential facts
- Mapped route
- ≈764 km
- Countries
- France · Spain
Getting there and leaving
The mapped route
Route map
Across northern Spain
The journey
The walk begins in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, in the French Pyrenees, then crosses Navarra — including Pamplona — and continues through La Rioja, Castilla y León and Galicia to Santiago de Compostela.
Among the larger cities on the mapped route are Pamplona, Logroño, Burgos and León.
Navarra
La Rioja
Castilla y León
Galicia
This page orients you in the geography of the route. It is not a day-by-day itinerary, and CaminoFinder does not yet offer walking stages for the Camino Francés.
Along the mapped route
Explore a section
Choose a start and a finish among published places on the mapped Camino Francés. CaminoFinder shows the mapped-route distance and the published place guides along that stretch — not walking days, and not a recommended itinerary.
Selected section
O Cebreiro → Santiago de Compostela
153 km on the mapped Camino Francés route
8 published CaminoFinder place guides on this section.
These are CaminoFinder place guides along the certified Camino Francés route. Distances are place-to-place mapped route distances, not suggested walking days.
Places along this section
These are published CaminoFinder place guides along the selected stretch of the mapped Camino Francés — not daily stages and not a recommended itinerary.
These are CaminoFinder place guides along the certified Camino Francés route. Distances are place-to-place mapped route distances, not suggested walking days.
Route order, from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to Santiago de Compostela.
Explore all Camino Francés place guides
- O CebreiroAbout 610 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 153 km remain to Santiago on the mapped routeSamosOn a Francés variantAbout 639 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 125 km remain to Santiago on the mapped routeOn a Francés variant — not the next place on the main mapped line. 29 km from O Cebreiro · 10 km to Sarria
- SarriaAbout 649 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 114 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
39 km along the mapped route
- PortomarínAbout 671 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 92 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
22 km along the mapped route
- MelideAbout 712 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 52 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
40 km along the mapped route
- ArzúaAbout 725 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 38 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
14 km along the mapped route
- O PedrouzoAbout 745 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 19 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
19 km along the mapped route
- Santiago de CompostelaRoute endAbout 764 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · Mapped end of the Camino Francés
19 km along the mapped route
About this map
Source note
Route geometry is based on public Camino de Santiago route data distributed by Spain’s National Geographic Institute (CNIG) and created by FEAACS. CaminoFinder preserves the source geometry and documents its route interpretation separately. The mapped length is an approximate figure from that source-based reading; published Camino distances vary.
FEAACS (creator). O.A. CNIG (distributor). «Rutas de Caminos de Santiago». CC-BY 4.0 FEAACS.