The Northern Way

Services on the Northern Way

Here you can find a list of some of the essential services for the pilgrim that are available to you on the Northern Way, such as shopping malls, hospitals, health centers, podiatry clinics or physiotherapy, among many others so you can cope To any mishap while you walk the Camino de Santiago.

Going along the Northern Way involves visiting incredible places along the Cantabrian coast, and recreate the view leaving behind the Basque Country, Cantabria and Asturias until entering Galicia by Ribadeo, but the pilgrim must be prepared to face tougher stages than the Camino French as a rule, also encountering inclement weather.

To get ready for our trip, the contents of our backpack are essential, but if it is not enough, we can always make use of the many services that we will find in the localities that surround the North Road. It is a route with a long tradition and although it is not as crowded by pilgrims as the French Way, there is a wide and varied range of services to satisfy all the needs that we could have on the Jacobean Route, from problems Of health from walking long stages, such as possible injuries.

The itinerary of the Northern Way will take us to visit several big cities of the peninsular geography as San Sebastián, Bilbao, Santander, Gijón or Oviedo, where we will not have any problem to find all kinds of services at our disposal. However our way will also go through localities like Irún, Zarautz, Gernika, Laredo, Comillas or Llanes; populations that are more than accustomed to the treatment with pilgrims and where given the demand for services by these, there are all kinds of establishments specialized in the attention of the pilgrims and more than delighted to receive us.