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Asociación de Amigos del Camino de Santiago de Sevilla – Vía de la Plata

The Camino association of Seville, founded in 1992: it revived the Vía de la Plata as a pilgrimage route, issues credentials and advises pilgrims at the start in Seville. Premio Elías Valiña 2009.

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Vía de la PlataThe Vía de la Plata runs 701.2 kilometers from Seville along the line of a Roman highway through Extremadura and Castile and León to Astorga, where it joins the Camino Francés. Along the way you pass Itálica, Mérida with its Roman bridge and theater, the noble city of Cáceres, the lonely arch of Cáparra, Salamanca and Zamora. 30 stages with ↗ 7,857 meters of ascent, a high point of 1,147 meters at the Pico de la Dueña, long days without a village and a summer in which you simply shouldn't walk here. At Granja de Moreruela the Camino Sanabrés branches off straight to Galicia.Explore this Camino

Who is behind the route

The Asociación de Amigos del Camino de Santiago de Sevilla – Vía de la Plata was founded on 24 December 1992 and is based in Calle Castilla in the Triana district. The Xunta de Galicia lists it as number 4 in its register of bodies promoting the Camino de Santiago, which makes it one of the earliest.

From the start, it set out to make the historic Vía de la Plata walkable again as a pilgrimage route and to research the traces of the apostle in Seville and Andalusia. In 2009 it received the Premio Elías Valiña for this work, named after the priest who invented the yellow arrows. It was a founding member and the first chair of the Federación Andaluza of Camino associations and belongs to the Spanish federation.

The association's route

Vía de la Plata – the whole route: 701.2 km from Seville via Mérida, Cáceres, Salamanca and Zamora to Astorga on the Camino Francés, in 30 stages; the association's work focuses on the start in Seville

In Seville the Vía Augusta arrives from Cádiz; along the way the Camino del Sur joins in Zafra and the Camino Mozárabe in Mérida. From Granja de Moreruela you can walk straight to Santiago on the Camino Sanabrés.

What the association does for pilgrims

The association issues the pilgrim credential, answers planning questions and offers its own route guide and answers to frequently asked questions. Through "SOS Camino" it helps pilgrims who run into trouble along the way. For members and anyone interested, it organises joint stages and outings on the route, publishes a newsletter and runs competitions.

Contact

The association is based at Calle Castilla 82 in Seville. You can reach it by email at viaplata@viaplata.org. Credential, guide and dates are on viaplata.org. An association that turned the Silver Way back into a pilgrimage route.