Great list. This is a terrific resource. It’s an updated version of an older version you will find posted here.
I would love to hear more about the reaction to the Port de la Selva starting point (actually, I started in Llança, just because it was cheaper and easier to get up to the monastery). I know there is a lot of scorn heaped on the route from Port de la Selva to Montserrat. For one thing it is pretty clearly a jerry-rigged camino. From Girona to Vic is a fabricated camino route, surely made by someone looking to increase travelers to both of those great places. Actually if you look at a map of ancient caminos over the Pyrenees from France, you will see one that goes south directly to Girona and another that goes south directly to Vic. What the Catalan tourist guys did was combine them together. It may not be a historical route, but it is amazing. The whole way is loaded with lots and lots of Romanesque, and both Vic and Girona are great places with lots of ancient art and lots else to see (roman temple, great plazas, etc).
When I walked, the amigos in Girona were particularly angry about the fake-ness of it all and refused to mark the route through the city. But what they did to make up for that was to meet me in a cafe the evening before and show me how to continue on the “fake route.”. That was very nice, but it made me think that they would save themselves a lot of time if they just put up the “fake markings.”
Anyway, this route takes you to Montserrat, so you miss the two or three days out of Barcelona, but from that point it continues on the “real” Catalán camino. So it’s just the Barcelona to Montserrat part you would miss if you walked the fake route. I would not have missed it for the world, it was just amazing, more romanesque per km than any other route I have walked, except maybe for the Castellano-Aragonés, beautiful scenery, lots of solitary, “away from it all” stages through gorges, forests, or foothills. My blog is linked below and there are lots of pinned resources with more details.
Buen camino, Laurie