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Asociación de Amigos del Camino Mozárabe de Santiago de Badajoz

The Camino association for the Camino Mozárabe in the province of Badajoz, based in Castuera: it looks after the last 117 km or so through La Serena and the Guadiana plains to Mérida.

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The Camino on the map

Caminos of this partner

Camino MozárabeThe Camino Mozárabe runs 613.1 kilometers from Almería Cathedral on the Mediterranean via Guadix, Granada and Córdoba to Mérida, where it joins the Vía de la Plata to Santiago. Along the way it climbs the north side of the Sierra Nevada to 1,426 meters, crosses the sea of olive trees in the provinces of Granada, Jaén and Córdoba, the Sierra Morena and the wide-open spaces of Extremadura. 27 stages with ↗ 7,997 meters of climbing, hostels mostly 8 to 20 euros, plus the Alhambra, the Mezquita and the longest surviving Roman bridge. In Alcaudete the branch from Jaén joins, in Baena the one from Málaga.Explore this Camino

Who is behind the route

The Asociación de Amigos del Camino Mozárabe de Santiago de Badajoz is based in Castuera, in the middle of the treeless expanse of La Serena. It looks after the final stretch of the Camino Mozárabe: from the border with Andalusia to Mérida, where the route joins the Vía de la Plata.

The name of the route recalls the Mozarabs, the Christians in Muslim-ruled al-Andalus who kept their faith and used this link to reach the way to Santiago. The association tells this story on its website and makes it visible to today's pilgrims.

The association's route

Camino Mozárabe – the section in the province of Badajoz: around 117 km from Monterrubio de la Serena via Castuera, Campanario, Don Benito, Medellín and Torrefresneda to Mérida, in five stages

Up to Monterrubio, the route is looked after by the Córdoba association. In Mérida it continues north on the Vía de la Plata.

What the association does for pilgrims

The association issues its own paper pilgrim credential and offers a pilgrim guide with maps, stages and services. Its accommodation list for the province's hostel network (Red de Acogida) is updated regularly, most recently in May 2026. In 2023 it walked the route again and replaced road sections with safer paths; the map on its website shows the revised sections. GPS tracks and safety advice complete the offer.

Contact

The association is based in Castuera. You can reach it by email at info@badajozjacobea.org. Pilgrim guide, map and accommodation list are on badajozjacobea.org. An association that takes pilgrims across the open spaces of Extremadura to the Roman bridge of Mérida.