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
Iruña / Pamplona → Santiago de Compostela
698 km on the mapped Camino Francés route
26 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
- Iruña / PamplonaAbout 65 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 698 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
- Puente la Reina / GaresAbout 89 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 675 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
24 km along the mapped route
- Estella-LizarraAbout 111 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 653 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
22 km along the mapped route
- LogroñoAbout 160 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 603 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
50 km along the mapped route
- Santo Domingo de la CalzadaAbout 210 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 554 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
49 km along the mapped route
- San Juan de OrtegaAbout 255 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 508 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
46 km along the mapped route
- BurgosAbout 281 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 483 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
25 km along the mapped route
- CastrojerizAbout 321 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 443 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
40 km along the mapped route
- FrómistaAbout 346 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 418 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
25 km along the mapped route
- Carrión de los CondesAbout 365 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 399 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
19 km along the mapped route
- SahagúnAbout 404 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 360 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
39 km along the mapped route
- El Burgo RaneroAbout 422 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 342 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
18 km along the mapped route
- Mansilla de las MulasAbout 441 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 323 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
19 km along the mapped route
- LeónAbout 459 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 304 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
19 km along the mapped route
- AstorgaAbout 507 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 257 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
47 km along the mapped route
- Rabanal del CaminoAbout 527 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 237 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
20 km along the mapped route
- PonferradaAbout 559 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 204 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
33 km along the mapped route
- Villafranca del BierzoAbout 583 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port · 181 km remain to Santiago on the mapped route
23 km along the mapped route
- 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
28 km along the mapped route
- 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.