peterott
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2025
Hello,
just some sort of stupid question: I found a very nice Spanish book from 2002 (ok, pretty old one) which describes - according to my limited Spanish language knowledge - the development of a hiking route La Calzada de los Blendios in the late 90es from Herrera De Pisuerga to Suances and then describes the trail in 7 legs
The book: https://www.cervantes.com/libro/9788495742124/calzada-de-los-blendios-la/
web description: https://www.desnivel.com/excursionismo/calzada-de-los-blendios-gr-73/
Now I am reading that the Ruta/Camino del Besaya is from Santander to Carrión de los Condes, means a further 46km away from Herrera de Pisguera and the beginning in Suances is even avoided. Checking a couple of webpages on the net it seems that the Ruta del Besaya just adds the last two legs down to Carrión de los Condes in order to reach the Camino Frances - and instead of going a swing from Santander to Suances, the Camino rather says "go directly from Santander via Torrelavega to Los Corrales de la Buelna" to connect the Camino del norte to the Ruta Besaya by skipping the piece from Suances to Los Corrales de la Buelna of the "Calzada de los Blendios".
(Example of the Ruta Besaya description here: https://vivecamino.com/ruta-del-besaya-camino-de-santiago-historico-no-771/)
Means that the routes are basically the same, but both endpoints differ quite a bit. Am I right or wrong?
just some sort of stupid question: I found a very nice Spanish book from 2002 (ok, pretty old one) which describes - according to my limited Spanish language knowledge - the development of a hiking route La Calzada de los Blendios in the late 90es from Herrera De Pisuerga to Suances and then describes the trail in 7 legs
The book: https://www.cervantes.com/libro/9788495742124/calzada-de-los-blendios-la/
web description: https://www.desnivel.com/excursionismo/calzada-de-los-blendios-gr-73/
Now I am reading that the Ruta/Camino del Besaya is from Santander to Carrión de los Condes, means a further 46km away from Herrera de Pisguera and the beginning in Suances is even avoided. Checking a couple of webpages on the net it seems that the Ruta del Besaya just adds the last two legs down to Carrión de los Condes in order to reach the Camino Frances - and instead of going a swing from Santander to Suances, the Camino rather says "go directly from Santander via Torrelavega to Los Corrales de la Buelna" to connect the Camino del norte to the Ruta Besaya by skipping the piece from Suances to Los Corrales de la Buelna of the "Calzada de los Blendios".
(Example of the Ruta Besaya description here: https://vivecamino.com/ruta-del-besaya-camino-de-santiago-historico-no-771/)
Means that the routes are basically the same, but both endpoints differ quite a bit. Am I right or wrong?