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title: "Map of the Camino de Santiago in Galicia"
description: "The real track of the Caminos across Galicia: Francés, Portugués, Inglés, Norte, Invierno and Fisterra, with the kilometre zeros and the final stages."
url: https://santiago.es/en/camino-map
locale: en
---

# Map of the Camino de Santiago in Galicia

See the whole Camino

The six routes that enter Galicia, drawn on the real track maintained by OpenStreetMap, with the kilometre zeros and the closing stages.

![Mapa antiguo con las rutas del Camino convergiendo en Santiago, grabado dorado](https://santiago.es/img/illus/mapa-rutas.jpg)

[© santiago.es · Ilustración](https://santiago.es)

By [Cesar Rodriguez](https://santiago.es/en/author) · updated 11 September 2026

- Francés
- Português
- Inglés
- Norte
- Invierno
- To Fisterra and Muxía

Route data © [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) (ODbL)

Most Camino maps in circulation are an arrow drawn across Spain. This is the track people actually walk: the large dots are the **kilometre zeros** you start from to earn the Compostela, and the small ones are the stage stops of the final stretch.

## The four places people start from

The Compostela requires **100 km on foot** (or 200 by bike), which leaves four usual starting points inside Galicia. They are not interchangeable: the scenery, the crowding and even your odds of finding a bed all change.

**Starting points in Galicia that qualify for the Compostela (distances added up stage by stage)**

| From | Route | Distance to Santiago |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sarria | Camino Francés | 114.2 km, 5 stages |
| Tui | Camino Português | 116 km, 6 stages |
| Ferrol | Camino Inglés | 111.5 km, 5 stages |
| Lugo | Camino Primitivo | about 100 km, 4-5 stages |

A Coruña falls short, and it catches a lot of people out

The other branch of the English Way starts in **A Coruña** and runs 72.4 km adding up the stages: short of the 100 the Pilgrim's Office requires as a general rule, so if you start walking there it **does not earn you the Compostela**. The exception is on the Office's own Compostela page: for anyone who began the route on foot outside Spain, the continuous kilometres on Spanish soil "shall not be less than 70", a floor A Coruña clears. That is what underpins the so-called *Celtic Camino*, which also asks for 25 certified kilometres in Ireland or the UK; that requirement comes from the agreement with the Cathedral, not the rule, and the rule does not say whether the total must still reach 100. Ask the Office before counting on it.

## Where the routes merge, which is where the quiet ends

The thing almost no map shows, and it decides what your last days feel like: the **Norte joins the Francés at Arzúa**, two stages from Santiago, and the **Primitivo joins at Melide**, a little further out. Whichever of the two you walked, you go from having the path to yourself to sharing it with everyone who started in Sarria. The Portuguese comes up its own side to Padrón and enters from the south without mixing.

If you are walking in August or September that detail is worth more than any packing advice: [the last stretch from Sarria](https://santiago.es/en/camino-de-santiago/routes) is the busiest of the entire network, and the Xunta's public hostels cannot be booked.

## Why Lugo has no line

Lugo is marked because it is a kilometre zero — about 100 km remain from there on the Primitivo — but its track is not drawn: OpenStreetMap does not hold the Camino Primitivo as a single relation, only as scattered sections and variants, and we would rather not draw a line we cannot vouch for. The other six are complete.

## After Santiago

The track does not end at the Cathedral. The line carrying on west is the [**Camino to Fisterra and Muxía**](https://santiago.es/en/camino-de-santiago/finisterre-muxia), another 90 km or so to Fisterra and 118 if you carry on to Muxía, and the only Jacobean route that starts in Santiago instead of ending there. If you are not going to walk it, [there are buses](https://santiago.es/en/leaving-santiago).

Where these lines come from

The track is **OpenStreetMap** data, maintained by its community and published under the ODbL licence. It is simplified to keep the page light, and drawn without a base map on purpose: it is good for understanding where each route runs and where they merge, **not for navigating on the ground**. For that, the Xunta's waymarking — granite markers every 500 m counting the distance down — beats any screen.

## Keep reading

**[Arriving in Santiago](https://santiago.es/en/camino-de-santiago/arriving)** — The last day — The Pilgrim's Office, the queue, the Mass and what to do once you stop walking. — Read the guide

**[Camino and Santiago webcams](https://santiago.es/en/webcams)** — See it now — O Cebreiro, Portomarín, Tui and Ferrol in pictures from five minutes ago. — Read the guide

**[All the Camino routes](https://santiago.es/en/camino-de-santiago/routes)** — Choosing a route — Which one fits the days, the fitness and the season you actually have. — Read the guide