New guide through Basque country

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Peter Robins

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• Apr 21, 2006

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The Basque country (Vizcaya, Guipúzcoa, Álava) is in the process of publicising a new guide to the coastal and interior/tunnel routes. Available online at http://www.industria.ejgv.euskadi.net/...

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stellar

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• Apr 21, 2006

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ruta interior

Howdy. Just looked up the new Ruta Interior from Irun through Basque country. The online brochure said there weren't many albergues yet, and that many of the casa rurales and hotels were off the pilgrim path, but accesible within a few kilometers. After a long day, a "few kilometers" may be toooo much. Anybody tried out that route yet? Sounds interesting, tunnels and all. Is it over-industrialized? How does one connect to the French route after the etapas end for the interior route? Seems like it would be somewhere around Santodomingo de la Calzada. Any info mightily appreciated. Peace. Stellar

 

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Peter Robins

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• Apr 21, 2006

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yes, Sto Domingo or Burgos. The former is the more established route, but the Burgos route (which follows the Roman road) is currently being developed by the regional government and the Burgos Amigos. See http://www.peterrobins.co.uk/camino/routes/tunel for some more links

 

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• Apr 21, 2006

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Roman Roads

An interesting site to find out about the restoration of Roman roads in the mediterranean Region - including France, Spain and Portugal is:

http://www.viadomitia.org

 

obinjatoo@yahoo.com

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• May 15, 2014

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Peter Robins said:

The Basque country (Vizcaya, Guipúzcoa, Álava) is in the process of publicising a new guide to the coastal and interior/tunnel routes. Available online at http://www.industria.ejgv.euskadi.net/...

[ivar:edited link to display better]

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Currently this link is not operational.

 

obinjatoo@yahoo.com

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• May 15, 2014

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obinjatoo@yahoo.com said:

Currently this link is not operational.

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I take that back. The link has some extra characters. I cut and paste the appropriate address in a browser and found the site. Perhaps Ivar you can fix this.

 

ivar

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• May 15, 2014

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obinjatoo@yahoo.com said:

I take that back. The link has some extra characters. I cut and paste the appropriate address in a browser and found the site. Perhaps Ivar you can fix this.

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I can't see the extra spaces in the link... for me it does not work.. could you cut/paste the correct link in a new posts below?

 

obinjatoo@yahoo.com

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• May 15, 2014

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Anything for you Ivar. Let me know if this works or not, I cut it directly from the web site URL
http://www.industria.ejgv.euskadi.net/r44-636/es/

 

grayland

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• May 26, 2014

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It does now link to a site....but nothing camino related unless it is hidden in one of the sub-sites.

 

jpflavin1

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• May 26, 2014

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stellar said:

ruta interior

Howdy. Just looked up the new Ruta Interior from Irun through Basque country. The online brochure said there weren't many albergues yet, and that many of the casa rurales and hotels were off the pilgrim path, but accesible within a few kilometers. After a long day, a "few kilometers" may be toooo much. Anybody tried out that route yet? Sounds interesting, tunnels and all. Is it over-industrialized? How does one connect to the French route after the etapas end for the interior route? Seems like it would be somewhere around Santodomingo de la Calzada. Any info mightily appreciated. Peace. Stellar

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Stellar:

I walked this route in 2011. I think is is a great option to starting in SJPdP. The route starts much more gently than the Frances. No real steep climb until Zegema. Here you have an 1100 meter climb to the tunnel. The tunnel itself is less than 100 meters. Then a nice walk through farmland and vineyards.

There are two options on where you intersect the Camino Frances. Either Santa Domingo de Calzada or Burgos. I recommend SDdC so you can stay in Granon on the Frances.

This route is sparsely traveled. I never had to leave the Pilgrim path to find accommodations. There were Albergues, pensions or Casa Rurals on the route.

I recommend you check out the Thread on the Vasco/Tunnel route for more information.

Ultreya,
Joe