Looking for information on the route from Barcelona to Zaragoza

[Sydney Peregrinos]

We are thinking of walking from Barcelona to Zaragoza in April 2024. Can anyone recommend a guidebook in English for this route. Also any information and advice will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Josep Montserrat]

We are thinking of walking from Barcelona to Zaragoza in April 2024. Can anyone recommend a guidebook in English for this route. Also any information and advice will be greatly appreciated.

Hi, Sydney Peregrinos.

I have used Callum's guide -Editorial Piolet-, which worked quite well for me.
I think you can get it in Amazon.



I have only done the section from Port de la Selva to Vic. So I can't talk about Barcelona - Zaragoza.



This is the back cover of the guidebook.



Bon Camí

 

[Sydney Peregrinos]

Hi Josep,
Thanks for this information. I will look it up.
Saludos,
Linda

 

[jungleboy]

@Rick of Rick and Peg will be along soon with some advice

 

[tim winn]

We are thinking of walking from Barcelona to Zaragoza in April 2024. Can anyone recommend a guidebook in English for this route. Also any information and advice will be greatly appreciated.

Search for the Gronze app. It'll give you much info.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

@Rick of Rick and Peg will be along soon with some advice

True if some means a little.

I used Gronze.com and the Wikiloc app to walk the Camino Catalan (Huesca route) in late October 2019. I believe there are three main routes out of Barcelona to Monserrat, two that go through San Cugat. I walked from the beach at Barceloneta to the path that starts near the velodrome at Horta. I stayed at an Airbnb in San Cugat. Gronze has the Camino Catalan starting at Monserrat. You definitely want to spend a night there. From there to Tarrega are three stages but then the caminos to Huesca and Zaragoza split. There are eight more stages to Zaragoza.

I ran into a lot of orchards on my trek and I hope you do too because they should be spectacular in the spring.

For the ways out of Barcelona see this forum thread:

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/waymarked-camino-in-barcelona.72317/

For information on the start of the trail from Horta see my post at:

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/information-on-barcelona-to-montserrat.70120/#post-924704

 

[LTfit]

Great information from @Rick of Rick and Peg. I also walked from the Horta metro station through Sant Cugat to Les Fonts then the next day to Monserrat. Unable to provide useful information as I walked through Huesca and not Zaragoza.

 

[Sydney Peregrinos]

Search for the Gronze app. It'll give you much info.

Hi Tim, we always use Gronze on our caminos but there is very limited info on albergues etc on the stages from Barcelona to Montserrat. From Barcelona on the Catalan there is more. It is only 3 days from Barcelona to Montserrat so we should find somewhere to stay.
Thanks, Linda

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Hi Tim, we always use Gronze on our caminos but there is very limited info on albergues etc on the stages from Barcelona to Montserrat.

Actually I stayed two nights in San Cugat. It was at an Airbnb close to a rail station. I walked to Terrassa and shuttled between it and San Cugat and then back the next day. You might find other places along the line.

The cheap (30€ or so) Airbnb is no longer listed but you could walk to San Cugat and train to Terrassa and back because now Terrassa has this

Alberg VallparadÃs Terrassa · Carrer de Alcalde Parellada, 2, 08222 Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain

âââââ · Hostel

maps.app.goo.gl

The website is https://albergvallparadis.cat/

 

[Sydney Peregrinos]

True if some means a little.

I used Gronze.com and the Wikiloc app to walk the Camino Catalan (Huesca route) in late October 2019. I believe there are three main routes out of Barcelona to Monserrat, two that go through San Cugat. I walked from the beach at Barceloneta to the path that starts near the velodrome at Horta. I stayed at an Airbnb in San Cugat. Gronze has the Camino Catalan starting at Monserrat. You definitely want to spend a night there. From there to Tarrega are three stages but then the caminos to Huesca and Zaragoza split. There are eight more stages to Zaragoza.

I ran into a lot of orchards on my trek and I hope you do too because they should be spectacular in the spring.

For the ways out of Barcelona see this forum thread:

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/waymarked-camino-in-barcelona.72317/

For information on the start of the trail from Horta see my post at:

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/information-on-barcelona-to-montserrat.70120/#post-924704

Thanks so much for your input Rick. I agree about there not being much information on Gronze for this route. We haven’t used Wikiloc before but will now. We might look at walking the route to Huesca instead as there appears to be quite limited accommodation on some of the stages.
Are you aware of any pilgrim friendly hostals in Barcelona where we might leave a small bag for a few weeks?
Thanks again for your input, Linda

 

[Sydney Peregrinos]

Actually I stayed two nights in San Cugat. It was at an Airbnb close to a rail station. I walked to Terrassa and shuttled between it and San Cugat and then back the next day. You might find other places along the line.

The cheap (30€ or so) Airbnb is no longer listed but you could walk to San Cugat and train to Terrassa and back because now Terrassa has this

Alberg VallparadÃs Terrassa · Carrer de Alcalde Parellada, 2, 08222 Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain

âââââ · Hostel

maps.app.goo.gl

The website is https://albergvallparadis.cat/

Thanks Rick, that’s a good suggestion.

 

[VNwalking]

You might want to also read this excellent thread:

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/west-from-montserrat.71787/

 

[Sydney Peregrinos]

You might want to also read this excellent thread:

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/west-from-montserrat.71787/

Thanks for the suggestion. I have just read it and it made me want to be out there now!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Are you aware of any pilgrim friendly hostals in Barcelona where we might leave a small bag for a few weeks?

On our Spain visits ('15 and '19) we stayed at Paraiso Hostel in Barcelona's El Raval neighborhood for our arrivals and departures. We stayed in private rooms though. We left things with them for eleven weeks in '15 though it was just a small package (and not worth much). It was stored offsite and so delivered the day after we arrived.

Its ratings fall all over the place and I take that as due to expectations. For example "clean", "a bit dusty", "dirty". It's in an old apartment building so it isn't going to appeal to wealthy travelers but hostel users should find it okay.

First time we booked directly with them but the last time they only did bookings though Hostel World and so we had to spend time registering for that site first. I saw something about them and booking.com recently though. They aren't far from a bus stop for a bus to the airport (not sure how to take that bus inbound). Also a few Metro stations nearby; near the Paral.lel one is an Orange phone store and a thousand year old Romanesque church, Sant Pau, where you can buy a credential (check for hours, I think they may be closed on Mondays like many museums).

BTW, in Catalan I believe a dot between a double L indicates a pronunciation like in English and without the dot a Y sound like Spanish.

 

[JabbaPapa]

This website is an excellent resource :

https://caminoignaciano.org/en/lodging/

 

[AnaRosario]

We are thinking of walking from Barcelona to Zaragoza in April 2024. Can anyone recommend a guidebook in English for this route. Also any information and advice will be greatly appreciated.

Contact CalMaco Albergue in Igualada