Picked by our team
Towns worth discovering along the Camino de Santiago, chosen by our team. Open one to see its history and sights, and where to stay.
13 towns on the Mosel-Camino
View on the mapAlken lives with the view across: on the Bleidenberg, from where the archbishops of Cologne and Trier besieged Burg Thurant in 1248, now stands the pilgrimage church, and opposite it the castle the two of them then shared. Down in the village waits a church first recorded in 1015. Trier is still 139.6 kilometres away.
Mosel-CaminoBeilstein is a film set with real stories: below the ruins of Burg Metternich, 132 people live among half-timbered houses and a former synagogue. 108 steps lead up to the Carmelite church, whose Black Madonna came home in 1950. On the Mosel-Camino an afternoon is enough, but book your bed ahead.
Mosel-CaminoBernkastel-Kues is the town to which a cardinal sent his heart home: Nicholas of Cusa is buried in Rome, but his heart lies in the chapel of the hospital he founded in 1458 for 33 people in need. Across the bridge is Bernkastel with its market square and Burg Landshut. The apostle's tomb in Trier is still 66.6 kilometres away.
Mosel-CaminoBullay is the railway hub of the Mosel-Camino: a wine village below the Hunsrück, where Germany's first double-deck bridge carries trains and cars one above the other across the Mosel. The long stage over the heights from Treis ends here, and the station makes Bullay the best place to join or leave the route.
Mosel-CaminoKarden is the part of Treis-Karden where you arrive after Burg Eltz and the steep descent from the Kompesköpfchen: right in front of the Moseldom of St. Castor, the oldest church on the Mosel between Trier and Koblenz. Here you find a stamp and a railway station; the beds are on both banks.
Mosel-CaminoKlausen grew out of almost nothing: around 1440 a day labourer called Eberhard placed a Pietà barely 20 centimetres tall in a wayside shrine, and today more than 100,000 pilgrims come every year. Here the Eifel-Camino meets the Mosel-Camino, and the Eberhardsklause is one of only two pilgrim hostels on the way to Trier.
Mosel-CaminoEifel CaminoKoblenz-Stolzenfels is where the Mosel-Camino begins: a district on the Rhine below a neo-Gothic palace that the Prussian king Frederick William IV had built from a castle ruin. The Lahn-Camino ends here, and from here it is 157.2 kilometres to the apostle's tomb in Trier.
Mosel-CaminoLahn CaminoMaria Engelport is a monastery in the quiet Flaumbach valley, 7.1 kilometres after Treis on the Mosel-Camino: founded around 1220, destroyed in the Thirty Years' War, a ruin for a century, today home to sisters of adoration. Daily Mass, an open church, a good break on the long stage to Bullay.
Mosel-CaminoSchweich is the last evening before Trier: a small town on the Mosel where Stefan Andres spent his childhood, with a ferry tower from 1794 that broke the ice in winter, and a synagogue that is now a place of remembrance. From here it is still 20.7 kilometres to the apostle's tomb.
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