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Hello to you all,
We are just back home after having walked that part of Camino Mozarabe. We walked from 22 March 2014 till 28 March 2014.
Stage Granada - 1km straight on after having passed railway tracks. Diner and sleep in Cortijo Torre Abeca.
Nothing special to mention. Good marking. I cannot mention any destination as this hotel is in the middle of nowhere. Very welcoming owner (and cook).
Stage Torre Abeca - Moclin
Guides mention the possibility to cross the railway tracks when you are in line with former albergue de Pinos Puente. It is no more possible. Tracks are closed by recent fences. You have to follow either the AVE (fast train) working site, what we did or follow a parallel path going in the same direction. When arrived to a bridge, you have to cross it to enter Pinos Puente. Good marking as said elsewhere towards Olivares.
Path is a little difficult in some parts due to agricultural machineries but nothing really serious.
We slept in Tozar, a neighbouring village.
Stage Tozar (Moclin) - Alcala la Real
Walked down to meet Camino on a small and quiet road. Where we met the Camino is rougly equidistant from Moclin and Tozar. After having left N432 and passed behind abandoned house (ruin), watch out !
You have to go always straight on, uphill and when you meet a small hito on the left of your walk, you carry on downhill (there is not any more camino). When arrived (300m may be) to the dense foliage covered ravine, then follow it on the right uphill this time. It is rather steep. You will find a tiny track that you follow
until you find a much larger gravel path. Go left (uphill) to find again yellow arrows. Keep in mind, when arrived at previously mentioned ravine, that you have to reach the white farm that is situated on your right not the one that is in front of you.
Before arriving in Ventas del Carrizal, arrows send you to an underground pass under N432. As underground pass was full of water, we had to follow N432 on 400m, take the exit on the right side of it, pass under 432 on a short road tunnel, turn left uphill to meet the Camino and turn right towards the end of the stage. When Camino reach again N432, you have to cross it (be very careful) and step over crash barriers to reach the former N432 to enter Ventas del Carrizal.
Afterwards, there is not much to write about, if, by places, marking is quite rare specially when crossing olive groves that is actually your daily activity. You have to be permanently very watchful.
I will be pleased to answer your questions as i was pleased to read, before beginning this Camino, your comments and recommendations. We shall leave again home in three weeks time to join Córdoba to walk the second part of this Camino to Merida that we already know having walk Camino de la Plata in totality a few years ago.
Please forgive my english...
There is a diversion that would shorten the way by 87 km if you link the Mozárabe with Vía de la Plata in Aldeanueva del Camino instead of Merida. This diversion brings you through g0rgeous Trujillo and Plasencia, and crossing the impressive Monfragüe National Park. This article can give you some information (unfortunately is in Spanish)
http://www.periodicodelcamino.com/camino-mozarabe-a-santiago-por-trujillo-monfrague-y-plasencia/
You take this diversion in Magacela, I believe, already in the province of Badajoz.
Thanks for your posting I am planning to depart the beginning of October 2014, Granada, Cordoba,Merida Santiago. I walked the Via de la Plata last year so will go via Astorga this time. Did you come across any Albergues between Granada and Melrida or is it all Hostels and Casa Rurals? Thanks again
Thanks for your posting I am planning to depart the beginning of October 2014, Granada, Cordoba,Merida Santiago. I walked the Via de la Plata last year so will go via Astorga this time. Did you come across any Albergues between Granada and Melrida or is it all Hostels and Casa Rurals? Thanks again
Wow, thanks, Amancio. This Camino is high on my 2015 list, and I like the alternative, not so much because it shortens the walk but because it takes me through new territory. The article you linked has good information on stages, and supposedly the marking is good as well.
Do you know anyone who has walked it? Buen camino, Laurie
Bueno, laurie, if you come to my home land (Granada), do let me know! I missed meeting you with Ender a couple of months ago just by a few days, I believe.
There is an albergue in Pinos Puente (the same Catholic order which runs the one in Alcuéscar), and in Baena I believe there is another one too. The Trujillo-Plasencia diversion sounds quite interesting, actually. There is further information somewhere in the yello Spanish forum, which is slowly languishing...
Hi Laurie @peregrina2000 and others,
Thanks for the link Laurie but I don't see any specific details about accommodations.
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LT
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