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Stage 23 · Vía de la Plata y Camino Sanabrés

Salamanca → El Cubo de la Tierra del Vino

494km km to Santiago
35,6 km Distance +330 m Ascent −260 m Descent 38,9 km Effort 12 h 12 Time needed · On foot

Before you set off

13.2 km

Nowhere to eat

From kilometre 15.9 to 29.2.

La Armuña, shadeless, to El Cubo

This is the longest stage of this section and it has to be taken seriously: 35.6 kilometres with 330 metres of ascent and 260 of descent, high difficulty because of the distance and the absence of services in the second half. You leave Salamanca from the Plaza Mayor heading north along calle Zamora, and the outskirts drag on through districts, industrial estates and road junctions until the route comes out into the plain of La Armuña.

There the real Vía de la Plata begins: straight tracks through cereal, without a tree, with the motorway and the main road never far off. You pass Castellanos de Villiquera and, around kilometre fifteen, Calzada de Valdunciel, the last village with bars and a shop. From there some twenty kilometres of open country remain in which there are no villages, no bars and no shade, only the odd fountain and the line of the drove road.

El Cubo de la Tierra del Vino, now in the province of Zamora, appears at the end of a slight rise, with its dug-out wine cellars and its adobe houses. It is a small village with just enough to sleep and eat, and after a day like this it is very welcome.

Tips

Leave at dawn and with breakfast inside you: the second half is walked under the sun whatever you do.

Fill every bottle in Calzada de Valdunciel and carry food: after that nothing is open until El Cubo.

Cap and sun cream. There is not one shaded stretch from the moment you leave the city.

Get a stamp along the way in Castellanos de Villiquera or Calzada de Valdunciel, because afterwards you will find nowhere.

Ask ahead about a bed in El Cubo: there is little accommodation and out of season it may be closed.

If thirty-five kilometres are too many, Calzada de Valdunciel lets you split the stage in two.

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Profile and services

Elevation profile of the stage from Salamanca to El Cubo de la Tierra del Vino, 35.6 kilometres, with services placed at their kilometre point.

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Salamanca 35.6 km El Cubo de la Tierra del Vino
Stretch with nowhere to resupply Restaurant Tourist office Bar Rest area Grocery shop Café

The weather

18°C

Clear

Feels like
18 °C
Wind
3 km/h
Daylight
08:31 – 19:45
  1. Today ⛅ 27° 9°
  2. Wed ⛅ 28° 11°
  3. Thu 🌫️ 27° 9° 8 %
  4. Fri ⛅ 26° 13° 7 %
  5. Sat ⛈️ 21° 13° 19 %
  6. Sun ⛅ 18° 10° 12 %
  7. Mon 🌧️ 13° 5° 13 %

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What's there today

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Tips from people who walked it

The things that do not expire: where the fountain actually is, which bar opens at six, where not to go in the rain.

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What to see on this stage 18

  1. Iglesia de San Benito Church km 0,0
  2. Convento de Las Agustinas Church km 0,0
  3. Iglesia de La Purísima Church km 0,0
  4. Iglesia de San Martín Church km 0,0
  5. Convento de la Madre de Dios Church km 0,0
  6. Iglesia de San Julián y Santa Basilisa Church km 0,0
  7. Iglesia de las Esclavas Church km 0,1
  8. Iglesia de San Juan Bautista de Barbalos Church km 0,3
  9. Parroquia de San Boal Church km 0,3
  10. Convento de Santa Isabel Church km 0,3
  11. Iglesia de San Juan de Sahagún Church km 0,4
  12. Iglesia del Corpus Christi Church km 0,4
  13. Iglesia de Santa María Magdalena Church km 0,4
  14. Iglesia de San Marcos Church km 0,5
  15. Capilla Trinitaria Church km 0,5
  16. Iglesia Church km 6,7
  17. Iglesia de San Juan Bautista Church km 11,9
  18. Iglesia de Santa Elena Church km 15,9

What you will find 1135