Camino Reino de Aragon

[davejsy]

I did a search on the forum, and couldn't find anything related to this Camino? Anyone any ideas? Photo from today near Monasterio de San Juan de la Pena.

 

[trecile]

It looks like it might be more of a driving route:

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www.slowdrivingaragon.com

Both the Camino Catalán and Camino Aragonés go to/through San Juan de la Peña.

 

[SabsP]

More info here. You can drive of course but it is a walking route.

Camino Reino de Aragón

El camino Este trayecto es continuación del camino de Sant Jaume, que se inicia en el Monasterio de Montserrat (Barcelona). Tras atravesar la provincia de este a oeste, se une al Camino Francés en Santa Cilia de Jaca. El trazado completo suma 180 km y atraviesa las muy diferentes zonas...

caminodesantiagohuesca.es

 

[dick bird]

The stages are surely the Cami Catala via Huesca rather than Lleida?

Edit: this is actually the Cami Catala as we know it. Regional sensitivities again - Reino de Aragon is what they call it in Aragon. The Vasco Interior similarly changes it names as it crosses the border into Castilla y léon.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

It looks like a walking route; see the distances, times and the label GR 17. I don't remember seeing signs like this on my 2019 Camino Catalan and a quick image search shows awfully new looking signs. After reading the webpage below it appears to me to be an alternate path to the Camino Catalan from San Juan to Berbegal and then onwards to Zaragoza. It also appears to be primarily a north/south route (or vice versa) rather than the Catalan's east to west route.

A pilgrimage through the Aragonese Pyrenees – Marian Trail (GR 17) | Hiking Collection by komoot

The Marian Trail, also known as the Aran-Pyrenees Way, links the city of Zaragoza with the sanctuary of Lourdes in France. However, only one section of this original pilgrimage is signposted: from the Aran Valley and across Ribagorza to the Somontano region. It’s also known as the Way of Saint...

www.komoot.com

 

[dick bird]

¨continuación del camino de Sant Jaume, que se inicia en el Monasterio de Montserrat (Barcelona). Tras atravesar la provincia de este a oeste, se une al Camino Francés en Santa Cilia de Jaca.¨

I checked the stages, they are almost precisely our stages earlier this year from Huesca to Santa Cilia, we even stayed in some of the albergues featured in the website Sabsp provided, so it is definitely the Catalan - notice how the blurb describes as a ´continuation´ of the way of ´Sant Jaume´, Catalan for Santiago, starting in Monserrat and finishing in Santa Cilia. Recently, the Aragonese regional government seem to have taken an interest in publicising this route. They have put in new signage (those yellow signs are visible all the way) and marked the route, somewhat to the apparent annoyance of local associations who don´t seem to have been consulted and have responded with big new yellow arrows showing where they think it should go. Relabelling it ´Reino de Aragón´ is part of the campaign to promote the region.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Okay Dick, I spent a lot of time exploring Spain this morning from my couch. I agree with you. I was getting confused with what I previously discovered about the GR 17. What I found was the southern end of the 17 was Berbegal which is also on the Camino Catalan. Mapy.cz didn't show any GR 17 labels past Berbegal. I suspect that along with the creating a new name change for the Catalan where it goes through Aragon the Camino going west from Berbegal became an extension of the GR 17 (or at least marked as such) and the Camino going east became the GR 17-1.