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Public transportation from Santillana Del Mar to Baamonde

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AliciaJo

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May 2025 El Camino Del Norte
I have limited time to complete El Camino Del Norte. My plan is to do the trek from Irun to Santillana Del Mar. But then I will need to get to Baamonde to complete the last 100k to Santiago before I need to fly out.
Is there a bus or train that runs from Santillana to Baamonde?

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Tincatinker said:
If you’re looking to receive a Compostela check whether Baamonde is a qualifying distance from Santiago. Lugo might be a better and more accessible start point
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I think that Baamonde is just shy of 100 km. A "safe" place to start would be Vilalba, which has pretty good bus options. Perhaps stopping at Santander and taking a bus to Vilalba might be a better option.
 
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You’d be better going to Lugo as an official start. Bus runs from Santander to Lugo (Alsa). You just have to backtrack from Santillana to Santander.
 
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trecile said:
I think that Baamonde is just shy of 100 km. A "safe" place to start would be Vilalba, which has pretty good bus options. Perhaps stopping at Santander and taking a bus to Vilalba might be a better option.
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According to my pictures, Baamonde is a fraction beyond the 100k mark and should be a safe starting point. Here's a picture of a marker I took heading out of town.

 
andycohn said:
According to my pictures, Baamonde is a fraction beyond the 100k mark and should be a safe starting point. Here's a picture of a marker I took heading out of town.

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I thought that I remembered that Baamonde qualified, but the Wise Pilgrim app told me differently, hence what I posted. But the Buen Camino app agrees with you and says that Baamonde is 100.82 km from Santiago. However, the transportation oprions might not be as good as to Vilalba.
 
There’s a KM101 cafe in the center of Baamonde and everyone there claims it qualifies, so I am sure it works. Several buses a day run from Santander to Lugo where you’d then have to catch a local bus. From Santallina, it’s a mess of bus transfers and waiting at bus stops.
 
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There’ll come a time, I have no doubt of this, when the PO will issue a special certificate for taking the most convoluted route available by public transport to Santiago. No doubt ticket stub production will be required. My local bus company is already considering issuing Scallop shells with the company logo and a QR code printed on them.

Meanwhile the OP hasn’t bothered to return to the forum to review the help offered by members.

And meanwhile I’ll continue to hope that pilgrims continue to walk to Santiago’s shrine with religious intent or at least in a sense of search and, if that pilgrimage involves a bit of wrestling with public transport that there is at least intent in adding in those added complexities
 
If they added sinks and clothes lines to launder my underwear while traveling by bus, I’m in!
 
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I asked the Pilgrim Office what town one needed to start at to receive a Compostela on the CdN. They confirmed the minimum distance required is from the town of Baamonde.
 
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