Via da Estrela

[Isca-camigo]

Some of you know about this route this already. It starts in Caceres and ends Braga, it was partly signed several years ago but it seems like there is going to be a new attempt at signing it, see link, on the Spanish side of the border, not sure what happens in Portugal.

La vía jacobea de la Estrella será recuperada como ruta senderista | Hoy

La Diputación de Cáceres subvenciona con 90.000 euros la señalización de esta antigua calzada romana que conecta Cáceres con Portugal

www.hoy.es

 

[JillGat]

Some of you know about this route this already. It starts in Caceres and ends Braga, it was partly signed several years ago but it seems like there is going to be a new attempt at signing it, see link, on the Spanish side of the border, not sure what happens in Portugal.

La vía jacobea de la Estrella será recuperada como ruta senderista | Hoy

La Diputación de Cáceres subvenciona con 90.000 euros la señalización de esta antigua calzada romana que conecta Cáceres con Portugal

www.hoy.es

This looks really cool. Is there a map for it somewhere or pictures? I did the route on Google Maps. (Villa del Rey; not Villar del Rey, which is much farther south). From Piedras Albas to Braga is a long way through Portugal. I hope they develop that section, too. I love Roman roads.

 

[SabsP]

This looks really cool. Is there a map for it somewhere or pictures? I did the route on Google Maps. (Villa del Rey; not Villar del Rey, which is much farther south). From Piedras Albas to Braga is a long way through Portugal. I hope they develop that section, too. I love Roman roads.

I visited Piedras Albas on a regular holiday ( roadtrip from Caceres ) and I just loved that area.

 

[Isca-camigo]

This looks really cool. Is there a map for it somewhere or pictures? I did the route on Google Maps. (Villa del Rey; not Villar del Rey, which is much farther south). From Piedras Albas to Braga is a long way through Portugal. I hope they develop that section, too. I love Roman roads.

This is the best I could find for it https://www.celtiberia.net/es/biblioteca/?id=2848
There is a Facebook group for it, but everyone time I check in very little has happened, and has been like that for years.

 

[Isca-camigo]

Another news article on this route with a quite good diagram of the route on the Spanish side.

La Diputación de Cáceres recupera la histórica Vía de la Estrella | Hoy

Inversión de 90.000 euros. Es un segundo camino para ir a Santiago de Compostela desde Cáceres; se dirige a Portugal y estará señalizado para el Año Santo 2021

www.hoy.es

 

[Zac123]

Cáceres to Viseu

Via da Estrela (Caminho de Santiago Cáceres-Viseu)

Via da Estrela (Caminho de Santiago Cáceres-Viseu) Mountain Bike trail in Cáceres, Extremadura (España). Download its GPS track and follow the itinerary on a map. Antiga via de peregrinação usada pelos peregrinos medievais que seguiam a estrada romana que ligava Emerita Augusta (Mérida) a...

www.wikiloc.com

and:

Via da Estrela (Caminho de Santiago Cáceres-Viseu)

"Via da Estrela" : Foi só recentemente (de há dois anos para cá) que tomei conhecimento desta via de peregrinação antiga que ligava a Via d...

bike-expedicao.blogspot.com

and:

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[Isca-camigo]

I have a Camigo on this Camino at this moment, he is in Monsanto tonight, he crossed over to Portugal a couple of days ago and is having to start early because of the curfew hours in effect in Portugal, I think his intention is to go to Viseu and then follow the CPI upto Verin. This is an epic Camino for he started in Cartagena in September and after a bit of improvising by going to Carvanca de la Cruz he then walked down to Almeria. He ended up waiting for 2 weeks outside of the borders Castila y Leon after coming up the Trujillo Variante on the Mozarabe before having to walk down to Caceres. This is his 4th Camino this Year. Via Kuning in February, he started in Ciudad Real in early March before having to stop in Avila on the eve of lockdown. He restarted exactly 100days later in June from Avila and made his way upto Astorga, Leon , Oviedo and then to the Camino do mar from Ribadeo and onto Santiago and Finistera. After going to his then home in Barcelona he walked the Via Marina along the Catalan Coast. I don't why I am writing this here but I feel very proud for him and to know him. The photos look spectacular from the Via Estrella as well and it looks waymarked. He also took the Caceres route to Guadeloupe from the Trujillo Variante when he crossed it, this looked a special in its remote terrain and mixture of wooded and open land with some climbs.

 

[SabsP]

I have a Camigo on this Camino at this moment, he is in Monsanto tonight, he crossed over to Portugal a couple of days ago and is having to start early because of the curfew hours in effect in Portugal, I think his intention is to go to Viseu and then follow the CPI upto Verin. This is an epic Camino for he started in Cartagena in September and after a bit of improvising by going to Carvanca de la Cruz he then walked down to Almeria. He ended up waiting for 2 weeks outside of the borders Castila y Leon after coming up the Trujillo Variante on the Mozarabe before having to walk down to Caceres. This is his 4th Camino this Year. Via Kuning in February, he started in Ciudad Real in early March before having to stop in Avila on the eve of lockdown. He restarted exactly 100days later in June from Avila and made his way upto Astorga, Leon , Oviedo and then to the Camino do mar from Ribadeo and onto Santiago and Finistera. After going to his then home in Barcelona he walked the Via Marina along the Catalan Coast. I don't why I am writing this here but I feel very proud for him and to know him. The photos look spectacular from the Via Estrella as well and it looks waymarked. He also took the Caceres route to Guadeloupe from the Trujillo Variante when he crossed it, this looked a special in its remote terrain and mixture of wooded and open land with some climbs.

Wow! Quite an achievement! How did he manage with lodgings?

 

[Isca-camigo]

He's a good planner, he has had some very short days because the other option would be to walk 40 or 50 km, + he knows many other Camigos, I know of least two places friends have put him up for the night.
I'm not sure how is going to manage in the coming week this is usually the really hard time to find accommodation at the best of times on any Camino.
What I would say is that he is definitely in the zone of being ruined for 'normal life' which we all go through when we get this bug, how do you go back? I hope he finds a way to marry together all aspects of his life.

 

[SabsP]

He's a good planner, he has had some very short days because the other option would be to walk 40 or 50 km, + he knows many other Camigos, I know of least two places friends have put him up for the night.
I'm not sure how is going to manage in the coming week this is usually the really hard time to find accommodation at the best of times on any Camino.
What I would say is that he is definitely in the zone of being ruined for 'normal life' which we all go through when we get this bug, how do you go back? I hope he finds a way to marry together all aspects of his life.

You should indeed feel very proud about him. And he about himself! Hope he will be able to tie everything in his life together.