jim wilking
New Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Frances and Portuguese last two years
VDLP (2017)
For 2024 Pilgrims: €50,- donation = 1 year with no ads on the forum + 90% off any 2024 Guide. More here. (Discount code sent to you by Private Message after your donation) |
---|
Will be starting my Camino in Gibraltar around April 21st with a route thru Ronda. The Asociacion Graditana Jacotea web site shows a basic route from town to town but no specific info as to the actual path. Some very detailed topo maps available on-line give a pretty good picture and my only real concern is the location of the Camino between El Colmenar and Ronda. I wonder if anyone knows if this information will be available in La Linea and, if so, where? Is there a cathedral in La Linea where the Camino begins and will I be able to pick up a Credential or will I have to wait for that until I get to Seville? Is the route thru Ronda considered an alternate "Via Serrana" to the Via Serrana that route thru Cadiz? Comments appreciated.
Hi Jim,
Here is what you need for this camino:
http://www.asociaciongaditanajacobea.org/via_serrana.htm (click on the little square on the left of ''Via Serrana'' at the top of the map and you'll have all the stages). The way starts from the Church of St James in La Linea.
I walked it last year in May and had a grand time. Don't worry, the marking is very good and you can find cheap accommodation all along the way.
Enjoy!
Jean-Marc
Hi, I wondered if you were enjoying this one? - I'm hoping to start in Tarifa and then do the Vía Serrana this October. Buen camino.I'm doing the Via Serrana this summer as a precursor to the Via de la Plata and as part of a Mediterranean to Atlantic walk. Starting June 3, the website mentioned by Canuck is very good.
Hi, Alan,Hi, I wondered if you were enjoying this one? - I'm hoping to start in Tarifa and then do the Vía Serrana this October. Buen camino.
The Serrana goes from near Gibraltar up past Ronda and joins the Vía de la Plata at Seville.Hi, Alan,
Is Via Serrana going to the west, to Portugal? I made some research for walking from Tarifa and to connect to Rota Vicentina (and up to Lisboa) but don't remember Via Serrana...
Hi, Condor,@jim wilking , Thanks for your comments regarding Camino via Serrana, I am / was planning to do El Camino Starting in La Linea de la Concepcion and finishing in Santiago de Compostela.
I have been searching information on the web regarding Camino via Serrana .
The information is either very sketchy or very complicated with very little useful information, eg,, travel 250meters and turn right after 50 meter take the fork on the left, 100 meters do a sharp right, 160 meters don't follow the road to your left go past the closed gate when you get to a T intersection do not go left or right continue straight ......
I am trying to obtain purchase a detail map ,
I may just travel from La Linea de la Concepcion to Jimena de la Frontera then take public transport to Ronda.
How is the route from Ronda to Seville ??
Thanks for your input
Hi, Condor,
You are in luck! I believe our regular fall walker @alansykes has just started this route. Watch for his posts, because he usually writes in as he goes. And he usually posts his GPS tracks, which is an added bonus. Though I am not much of a tech-y person, I also walk solitary routes and wouldn't go without them. Alone plus solitary route = need for GPS in my mind.
El Condor@jim wilking , Thanks for your comments regarding Camino via Serrana, I am / was planning to do El Camino Starting in La Linea de la Concepcion and finishing in Santiago de Compostela.
I have been searching information on the web regarding Camino via Serrana .
The information is either very sketchy or very complicated with very little useful information, eg,, travel 250meters and turn right after 50 meter take the fork on the left, 100 meters do a sharp right, 160 meters don't follow the road to your left go past the closed gate when you get to a T intersection do not go left or right continue straight ......
I am trying to obtain purchase a detail map ,
I may just travel from La Linea de la Concepcion to Jimena de la Frontera then take public transport to Ronda.
How is the route from Ronda to Seville ??
Thanks for your input
El Condor
Yes, a good map seems to be hard to find. I took some screen shots of the route shown on the web site
http://www.asociaciongaditanajacobea.org/via_serrana.htm and printed them off for use on the trail but they were not really the answer because they were pretty old maps and roads and inhabited areas seemed to have changed quite a bit. You read some of the comments I received from my original post and it really gets confusing because there seems to be more than one pathway. Some comments indicated the path was well-marked and the one I took was well-marked in places but it was quite obvious to me that no one had recently been on the camino that I was on with the wall and locked gate being just one example. There were also references to GR7 that I had no idea what that was in reference to. And one commenter indicated his route took him thru Ubrique which you'll see on the map is well west of the river and the route indicated in the web site above keeps you basically east of the river all the way to Ronda. So all very confusing.
I am currently trying to learn to use Google Earth. The information available there is unbelievable if you can figure out how to navigate thru the web site. I have also been considering going back and doing it all again with a little more time to spend. Finding a way thru the first 3 K's or so out of El Colmenar is really the only obstacle I would need to overcome. I should be able to figure that out using Google Earth.
A word of caution on leaving Ronda. It's a long day to Olvera. I missed the camino markings coming out of Ronda and it made for a long day. Olvera is that mountain way out on the horizon that looks like it has snow on the top of it. But instead of snow there are many white painted buildings. And you do have to climb that mountain at the end of your day.
From Ronda to Seville is just a nice walk and fairly well marked except for the one confusing area mentioned in my last post.
Good luck and let us all know how it went. You didn't mention your schedule so I hope this response is not too late. Have been traveling a bit and didn't answer this in a timely manner.
Cheers, Jim W.
Yes. My Spanish is very limited but you muddle thru OK. One suggestion I would have if you follow the route that I tried to follow. If you don't get lost on the mountain like I did you should get to El Colmenar in good time. Before you drop down off the hill to El Colemenar look for the path that leads you to the north. It has to cross over the path you take down the hill (thru the pasture) somewhere up there on top. If you could start up that path and see that it is reasonably marked it would give you some confidence there is an actual path there. It should only be about 3 K's to the river where the yellow path shows up on the web site. That's what I will do if I try that camino again.
Did you wind up doing this walk? We're thinking of doing the same in Fall 2023. We've walked to Finisterre, so we are thinking Via Serrana, Via de la Plata, Camino Sanabrés, and then Camino Inglés backwards. We're figuring 9 weeks including an average of one rest day per week. Thoughts?I'm doing the Via Serrana this summer as a precursor to the Via de la Plata and as part of a Mediterranean to Atlantic walk. Starting June 3, the website mentioned by Canuck is very good.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?