Current resources for the Camino Mozårabe

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My partner and I have decided to walk the Mozarabe, beginning in early February. I reached out to forum members and received a lot of very helpful responses, plus did a bit of research on my own. Thought it might be helpful to consolidate some of the more useful resources here. I will post more to the thread as I go through my files/dig further. It would be great to have forum members contribute more of their resources and tips, so please add to the string.

Almeria to Granada Walking Guide
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...ino-de-santiago-del-mozarabe-2022-pdf.141055/

Very detailed guide in Spanish
http://www.caminomozarabesantiago.com/?m=0

Camino Association Guide. (they are amazing)
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...-camino-mozarabe-almeria-merida-1-pdf.161722/

Pilgrim’s Guide
https://www.caminomozarabedesantiago.es/documentos/guia-eng.pdf

Andalucia tourism guide
https://www.andalucia.org/en/routes-camino-mozarabe-de-santiago

Almeria guide
https://www.andalucia.org/en/almeria

Weather Guide
https://weatherspark.com/compare/m/2/35192~36650~40695/Comparison-of-the-Average-Weather-in-Málaga-Granada-and-Pamplona-in-February

 

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Here are Mozarabe threads posted by C Clearly (Moderator) in September 2021. I decided to cut and paste here because I had difficulty finding their posting (I am not very good at maneuvering through this site).

C Clearly (direct quotation):
This thread will be pinned to the top of the Camino Mozárabe forum. (Click on the Casa Ivar logo at the top of this page, to see the list of all forums, where all threads are listed in with newest ones first.)

Other ways to browse information include the following search links, which collect tagged threads exclusively in the Camino Mozárabe forum. They are updated in the future every time you use them.

From Almería, the main route goes through Granada, Córdoba and Mérida, where it joins the Vía de la Plata. Two other popular starting points are Málaga and Jaén, both of which join the main route in Baena (between Granada and Córdoba).

• Click on Málaga for all threads that have "Málaga" in the title.
• Click on Jaén for all threads that have "Jaén" in the title.

We really must mention the helpfulness of the Asociación Jacobea de Almeria-Granada Camino Mozárabe (a.k.a. Almería Asociación") particularly for the Almería to Granada section. Their Facebook and website has a frequently updated list of accommodations. They are very responsive to enquiries. If you don't use Facebook, you can email the Association at caminomozarabedealmeria@gmail.com .

There are other groups of volunteers for different regions, with their own websites and Facebook sites, including the Malaga Association here. So, it can get confusing!

Moderator picks - Including some detailed stage-by-stage planning threads.

Art and architecture - Not too many dedicated threads here in the Mozárabe forum, but this topic is covered in some of the Moderator Picks above, and also in the general thread about Best Islamic Architecture on the Camino.

Fiestas, holidays and markets - Including Easter

Hazards - Traffic, dogs, river crossing, steep slopes, etc.

Landmarks - Interpreting the word broadly!

LIVE from the Camino - Recent threads written by the pilgrims at the time of walking, so check the dates! (A few older "LIVE" threads don't appear here, but they may appear as Moderator Picks, above.)

Side trips and route variants - But also check the links above, for details on the Málaga and Jaén options.

You can see that some of those links don't have much material. You can help by starting new threads with a question or discussion of one of those topics. I can tag them as appropriate. Also, let me know if you find other threads that should be tagged so they will appear in these collections!

Last edited: Apr 25, 2023

 

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A forum member has posted information about shorter stages for the Mozarabe, but you will need to ask permission to see this document: https://findpenguins.com/5vacnkpie3...SC&s=2e8762ffcb0a4ddab1c1545b320c7338fde812de

 

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A forum member has a posting about bus options along the Mozarabe, if needed. https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/busses-on-the-mozarabe.84367/#post-1207736

 

[debigetsout]

A forum member shared this information for contacting members of the Mozarabe Association (direct quotation follows):

You will also find contact information in the Association's guide (found in my first post):
If you have the link - I’d suggest
Number 1- Contact the association president ‘Mercedes’ of the group

by WhatsApp. +34649806150

She will send you the latest version to your WhatsApp number.

Nely (another association member ) who lives in almeria has an albergue there (donativo)
Her WhatsApp is: +34619860198

There are other association contacts - Veronika lives along the route. Usually after they finish work in Fridays - Mercedes and Veronika will catch up with pilgrims enroute.

Paco is the contact in Guadix.

I’d suggest you load these 2 WhatsApp numbers in your phone to start with.
I stayed with Nely in Almería for 2 nights - she was very helpful with stage ideas - I had a list of my proposed stages and she gave me her opinion.

 

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In case you encounter a not so friendly dog: https://www.tellmeinspanish.com/vocab/spanish-dog-commands/

 

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Short videos about the Mozarabe: https://www.youtube.com/@ADRAlpujarra/videos

 

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Mozarabe way-marked trails: https://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/#route?id=9631621&map=9.0/37.1703/-4.4541

 

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Mapas de España: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orux.oruxmapsIGN&hl=es&gl=US&pli=1

 

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caminoweather.com

February weather forecast for the Camino Mozárabe from Málaga

Get a personal daily weather forecast for the Camino Mozárabe from Málaga for the exact dates you're planning to go. Or browse to pick the best time of year.

caminoweather.com

 

[Rafaelab]

Very useful, many thanks

 

[debigetsout]

The Malaga Association info:

De Málaga a Córdoba - Camino Mozárabe de Málaga

Material complementario Bajar todos los tracks por etapas (en un archivo comprimido)

caminomozarabedemalaga.com

 

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Moderator Peregrina2000 posted this information in another thread. I am re-posting here, mainly because I don't know if I will be able to find the original source again, particularly when trying to navigate the Forum while on the Mozarabe, on my phone.

• May 20, 2020

I’m hoping that some who might not otherwise have joined our Mozárabe zooms set for next week will take a look and say — ahh, it can be done!

I spent some time with the Association guide and some great forum posts and came up with a sketch of stages that are almost all under 20 km. The two that are not have taxis in the towns on both ends so pick-up is easy to arrange. I remember @Raggy saying that it could be done, and I just had to prove it to myself.

1. Almería to Rioja (15 km)

2, Rioja to Santa Cruz de Marchena (20.4 km)

3. Santa Cruz to Nacimiento (16.3 km)

4. Nacimiento to Abla (15.1 km)

5. Abla to Huéneja (20.9 km)

6. Huéneja to Alquife (18 km)

7. Alquife to Guadix (24 km)
Can be broken up about half way with a stay in Cogollos de Guádix
(https://www.casaruraltesorillo.com)

8. Guádix to La Peza (22.3 km)

9. La Peza to Tocón de Quéntar (12.6) — pay attention to special instructions, this is an off-grid place, but the guide is very clear.

10. Tocón de Quéntar to Quéntar (15.7 km)

11. Quéntar to Granada (17.6 km)

12. Granada to Pinos Puente (19.2 km)

13. Pinos Puente to Moclín (14.2 km)

14. Moclín to Alcalá la Real (22 km)
(with a Casa Rural about 13 km after Moclín if 22 is too far
https://es.trip.com/hotels/ermita-nueva-hotel-detail-10799004/la-atalaya/)

15. Alcalá la Real to Alcaudete (23 km)
(another casa rural in the middle in Venta del Carrizal —
http://cortijoruralcabezaalta.weebly.com)

16. Alcaudete to Baena (25 km)
Seems to be no way to break this up.

17. Baena to Castro del Río (20 km)

18. Castro del Río to Santa Cruz (22 km)
(with an albergue in Espejo, at 10 km from Castro del Río)

19. Santa Cruz to Córdoba (24 km)
Seems to be no way to break this up.

20. Córdoba to Cerro Muriano (17.5 km)

21. Cerro Muriano to Villaharta (21 km)

22. Villaharta to Alcaracejos (35 km)

No way to break this up. I know some pilgrims have taken a cab to a spot about 25 km from Villaharta (at a point where the camino crosses the motorway) and then walked the rest (see post number 124 in this thread
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...om-almería-june-2018.56268/page-2#post-641502)

Good strategy, except that it means you miss the pretty part and walk the roadside part. So if there were a way to walk first and then get a cab to pick you up at that 25 km point and then get a cab for 10 km into Alcaracejos, that would be much nicer. Getting a cab to come get you from Alcaracejos would be much cheaper than having the Villaharta cabbie take you to Alcaracejos, and there are several listed on the internet. Taxi Alcaracejos Juan Madrid. Tel. 34 600 05 94 94


23. Alcaracejos to Hinojosa del Duque (21 km)

24. Hinojosa del Duque to Monterrubio de la Serena (31.7 km)

No way to break this up that I have found.
Taxi in Hinojosa del Duque. Taxi Rafael Moreno, 648 10 08 45
Taxis in Monterrubio de la Serena. TaxisAntonio Santos Tello. 619 001 477; Taxis Eugenio Juzgado, 661 653 838

*****Note that there is also an alternative way to go from Villaharta to Monterrubio. I haven’t walked this route, but there is good information here. Stages are shorter.
http://pamnjeff.com/caminomozarabe/variant-por-el-guadiato/

25. Monterrubio de la Serena to Castuera (18.5 km)

26. Castuera to Campanario (20 km)

27. Campanario to La Haba (20 km)

28. La Haba to Medellín (18 km)

29. Medellín to Torrefresnada (15.5 km). (be careful, this is the day with the horrible roadside walking on the way into Torrefresnada — there may be a bridge that avoids it, @Raggy do you have any more info?)

30. Torrefresnada to Trujillanos (16 km)

31. Trujillanos to Mérida (9 km)

 

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Magwood's excellent thread: https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...o-mozarabe-from-almeria-with-resources.57629/

 

[krystianw]

22. Villaharta to Alcaracejos (35 km)

No way to break this up. I know some pilgrims have taken a cab to a spot about 25 km from Villaharta (at a point where the camino crosses the motorway) and then walked the rest (see post number 124 in this thread
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...om-almería-june-2018.56268/page-2#post-641502)

Good strategy, except that it means you miss the pretty part and walk the roadside part. So if there were a way to walk first and then get a cab to pick you up at that 25 km point and then get a cab for 10 km into Alcaracejos, that would be much nicer. Getting a cab to come get you from Alcaracejos would be much cheaper than having the Villaharta cabbie take you to Alcaracejos, and there are several listed on the internet. Taxi Alcaracejos Juan Madrid. Tel. 34 600 05 94 94

When I was in Villaharta this year, I ran into a couple that had been driven back from the halfway point by cab. They said the driver was a nice guy and pretty flexible, so this could be arranged with him over the phone. I don't know the specifics though.

*****Note that there is also an alternative way to go from Villaharta to Monterrubio. I haven’t walked this route, but there is good information here. Stages are shorter.
http://pamnjeff.com/caminomozarabe/variant-por-el-guadiato/

NOW YOU TELL ME?!

 

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Variant Guadiato:

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/variant-por-el-guadiato.48141/

 

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Gerard has developed this itinerary for our walk on the Mozarabe. He has borrowed from a number of sources that I don't think I can trace at this point. You will find a bit of Dutch in the spreadsheet, but I believe it is easily decipherable for English speakers.

You will see that after Merida we walk south on the VDLP to Seville, as this is our favourite part of the VDLP. We begin walking on 7 February!

 

[peregrina2000]

Gerard has developed this itinerary for our walk on the Mozarabe. He has borrowed from a number of sources that I don't think I can trace at this point. You will find a bit of Dutch in the spreadsheet, but I believe it is easily decipherable for English speakers.

You will see that after Merida we walk south on the VDLP to Seville, as this is our favourite part of the VDLP. We begin walking on 7 February!

Buen camino, @debigetsout! I see that your spreadsheet has a notation for the horrible roadside walk into Torrefresnada. Someone must have given the advice to contact the tourist office or the local police in Medellín before starting out, because I wrote that in a post (but did not get that information myself). Getting to the river and finding it impassable will mean adding many kms (at least 9, I believe) of backtracking to get onto the national highway.

Less than a week before you start, lucky you! Buen camino, Laurie

 

[Jay Es]

Moderator Peregrina2000 posted this information in another thread. I am re-posting here, mainly because I don't know if I will be able to find the original source again, particularly when trying to navigate the Forum while on the Mozarabe, on my phone.

• May 20, 2020

I’m hoping that some who might not otherwise have joined our Mozárabe zooms set for next week will take a look and say — ahh, it can be done!

I spent some time with the Association guide and some great forum posts and came up with a sketch of stages that are almost all under 20 km. The two that are not have taxis in the towns on both ends so pick-up is easy to arrange. I remember @Raggy saying that it could be done, and I just had to prove it to myself.

1. Almería to Rioja (15 km)

2, Rioja to Santa Cruz de Marchena (20.4 km)

3. Santa Cruz to Nacimiento (16.3 km)

4. Nacimiento to Abla (15.1 km)

5. Abla to Huéneja (20.9 km)

6. Huéneja to Alquife (18 km)

7. Alquife to Guadix (24 km)
Can be broken up about half way with a stay in Cogollos de Guádix
(https://www.casaruraltesorillo.com)

8. Guádix to La Peza (22.3 km)

9. La Peza to Tocón de Quéntar (12.6) — pay attention to special instructions, this is an off-grid place, but the guide is very clear.

10. Tocón de Quéntar to Quéntar (15.7 km)

11. Quéntar to Granada (17.6 km)

12. Granada to Pinos Puente (19.2 km)

13. Pinos Puente to Moclín (14.2 km)

14. Moclín to Alcalá la Real (22 km)
(with a Casa Rural about 13 km after Moclín if 22 is too far
https://es.trip.com/hotels/ermita-nueva-hotel-detail-10799004/la-atalaya/)

15. Alcalá la Real to Alcaudete (23 km)
(another casa rural in the middle in Venta del Carrizal —
http://cortijoruralcabezaalta.weebly.com)

16. Alcaudete to Baena (25 km)
Seems to be no way to break this up.

17. Baena to Castro del Río (20 km)

18. Castro del Río to Santa Cruz (22 km)
(with an albergue in Espejo, at 10 km from Castro del Río)

19. Santa Cruz to Córdoba (24 km)
Seems to be no way to break this up.

20. Córdoba to Cerro Muriano (17.5 km)

21. Cerro Muriano to Villaharta (21 km)

22. Villaharta to Alcaracejos (35 km)

No way to break this up. I know some pilgrims have taken a cab to a spot about 25 km from Villaharta (at a point where the camino crosses the motorway) and then walked the rest (see post number 124 in this thread
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...om-almería-june-2018.56268/page-2#post-641502)

Good strategy, except that it means you miss the pretty part and walk the roadside part. So if there were a way to walk first and then get a cab to pick you up at that 25 km point and then get a cab for 10 km into Alcaracejos, that would be much nicer. Getting a cab to come get you from Alcaracejos would be much cheaper than having the Villaharta cabbie take you to Alcaracejos, and there are several listed on the internet. Taxi Alcaracejos Juan Madrid. Tel. 34 600 05 94 94


23. Alcaracejos to Hinojosa del Duque (21 km)

24. Hinojosa del Duque to Monterrubio de la Serena (31.7 km)

No way to break this up that I have found.
Taxi in Hinojosa del Duque. Taxi Rafael Moreno, 648 10 08 45
Taxis in Monterrubio de la Serena. TaxisAntonio Santos Tello. 619 001 477; Taxis Eugenio Juzgado, 661 653 838

*****Note that there is also an alternative way to go from Villaharta to Monterrubio. I haven’t walked this route, but there is good information here. Stages are shorter.
http://pamnjeff.com/caminomozarabe/variant-por-el-guadiato/

25. Monterrubio de la Serena to Castuera (18.5 km)

26. Castuera to Campanario (20 km)

27. Campanario to La Haba (20 km)

28. La Haba to Medellín (18 km)

29. Medellín to Torrefresnada (15.5 km). (be careful, this is the day with the horrible roadside walking on the way into Torrefresnada — there may be a bridge that avoids it, @Raggy do you have any more info?)

30. Torrefresnada to Trujillanos (16 km)

31. Trujillanos to Mérida (9 km)

There's a place to stay halfway to Alcaracejos at Minas Guillerm. We booked it by What's app number is in the Almeria association booklet you can down load.

 

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Buen camino, @debigetsout! I see that your spreadsheet has a notation for the horrible roadside walk into Torrefresnada. Someone must have given the advice to contact the tourist office or the local police in Medellín before starting out, because I wrote that in a post (but did not get that information myself). Getting to the river and finding it impassable will mean adding many kms (at least 9, I believe) of backtracking to get onto the national highway.

Less than a week before you start, lucky you! Buen camino, Laurie

Thanks so much, Peregrina2000! G has updated the spreadsheet above.

 

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More resources from Forum members:

https://www.gronze.com/gronze-maps

https://www.gronze.com/camino-mozarabe. (We found that Gronze accommodation listings are not always up to date, but it is a nonetheless useful app.)

mapy.cz app

 

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Updates for the Mozarabe guide (at least some will be added/addressed by the local associations):

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/some-suggested-updates-to-the-camino-mozarabe-guide.85630/#post-1234419

 

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Our summary of our walk: https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...ve-completed-the-mozarabe.85583/#post-1233674

 

[peregrina2000]

More resources from Forum members:

https://www.gronze.com/gronze-maps

https://www.gronze.com/camino-mozarabe. (We found that Gronze accommodation listings are not always up to date, but it is a nonetheless useful app.)

mapy.cz app

If you are so moved, you could contact Gronze with the updates. They have a contact button on the bottom of every page and are very good about responding and incorporating changes.