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Hi Stephen,I am looking for a good list of albergues for Madrid camino. Could anyone recommend a guidebook? Website?
Hola, Stephen!It seems that a couple of 30km treks are unavoidable.
Thanks Donovan for your quick reply. I have offered checked out the CSJ. Maybe it is time to make a purchase. Kind regards, SteveHi Stephen,
The CSJ guide is useful and lists all the towns/villages along the way, with distances and available accommodation. The Mundicamino website also contains a lot of information.
I made up a spreadsheet listing accommodation along the route. It's ca. 2014 information (from Mundicamino) but should form a useful starting point. If of interest, PM me your email address and I'll send it
Donovan
Hola, Stephen!
Not true at all. The longest stretch without albergue is also the longest and toughest on the whole CdM and that's Cercedilla-Segovia and that one is 30kms. Otherwise albergues are much closer to each other. Browse through CdM subforum and suggested web sites and you'll get the picture. If you want I can e-mail you my list of accomodation and distances from 2014.
It's beautiful and quite solitary Camino but well worth walking it. Apart from Camino de Invierno I've found the nicest and most welcoming locals exactly on this Camino!
Ultreia
And even shorter from Cercedilla if you stay overnight in Valsain. Nothing like Parador in this hostal but excellent food:Actually from Cercedilla to La Granja de San Ildefonso is only 22kms if you stay at the Youth Hostel on the way up the hill, and there is an albergue in La Granja. This makes the walk to Zamarramala only 15kms and gives plenty of time to visit Segovia, you actually enter Segovia at the beginning of the aqueduct.
Incidentally, I have also found the kml (route overlay) for the Madrid Camino in case anyone is using an offline map like Maps.me on their smartphone and wants to make sure they are on the right track (not sure how well waymarked it is).
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5saV2E-AKF7dnotMFd1dk5wTnc/view?usp=sharing
peregrina, greetings I am wanting to do this Camino and am fairly aquainted with Madrid around Puerta de Sol. So my question is where does this Camino start can you give me some assistance..such as the Calla where one starts at and so forth. thanks.The Madrid Camino association has a spreadsheet with albergue accommodation as of Sept. 2016. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4P5Ikggoh_wNU5nTGxKSDZPVk1JeGROamFVbERSMnBPNm5J/view
Hi, nathanael,
I think it depends on whether you want to walk from the Church of Santiago (in old Madrid, in between Sol and Opera) where you can get a nice sello, or whether you will go up to the Plaza Castilla to start with the arrows. What I did was walk on my arrival day from the church up to the Plaza Castilla, and then walk on the next day from the Plaza Castilla to Colmenar el Viejo, where I stayed in a nicer-than-typical-pilgrim lodging.
From the Church to Plaza Castilla, it can be a nice walk through old Madrid, up the Castellana, but some prefer just to get started further on. Some also take Cercanías as far out as Tres Cantos, it just depends on how you like leaving cities.
I will say that leaving Madrid on the camino is painless and not overly ugly. No industrial parks to go through, and the transition from city to country is stark. Walk under the M-40 (I think) and you are in the country.
And one last thing to point out, someone on the forum has said that the first arrow is no longer outside the Rodilla sandwich shop at the Plaza de Castilla. That's where it was when I walked and where it had been for years. Buen camino, nathanael, I think you will like this camino very much! Laurie
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