The Best Views on the Camino de Santiago

Walking the Camino de Santiago? Make sure you don’t miss these stunning viewpoints along the way.

La Citadelle

The highest point in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (Km 779.9) offers breathtaking views of the surrounding hills and mountains and into the town where the modern Camino officially begins.

Col de Lepoeder

The second-highest summit on the entire Camino, with panoramic views of the Pyrenees in France and Spain. (Km 759.5)

Puerto de Ibañeta

It was fabled among medieval pilgrims that they could touch heaven from this pinnacle (the high point on the Route Valcarlos), which overlooks multicolored heather- and fern-covered mountains. (Km 757.4)

Alto del Perdón

It’s said that the wind on this high ridge (whose name means “height of forgiveness”) has the power to carry away one’s burdens and sorrows. Views overlook the sweeping slopes and rocky fields of the Cantabrian mountains. (Km 698.3)

Cuesta de Matamulos

On this hill, just before Hornillos del Camino (Km 468.6), the road suddenly opens to a glorious vista of fields that in spring are specked with red poppies.

Alto de Mostelares

A final steep climb before the vast meseta, this high hilltop reveals infinite, open blue sky and endless green and gold patchwork wheat fields far below your feet. (Km 445.4)

Monte Irago and Alto Altar Mayor

After enacting one of the Camino’s most potent rituals—laying a stone at the base of the Cruz de Ferro monument (Km 232.3)—you’ll encounter the path’s true highest summit, just past the hamlet of Manjarín. Take in a view of the surrounding mountains and, soon after, the approaching village of El Acebo at your feet below and of the large town of Ponferrada in the distance, nestled in the bowl of a fertile mountain valley.

Mountaintop view from La Faba

As you leave La Faba, turn around for an idyllic view of Iglesia de San Andrés nestled below the village, with multicolored mountains rolling out beyond the bell tower. (Km 159.2)

O Cebreiro

Sunrise and sunset are stunning from the Camino’s third-highest point. (Km 154.3)

Monte do Gozo

At the highest point of Monte do Gozo hill, you’ll catch your first glimpse of the cathedral spires in Santiago de Compostela. You’ve almost arrived! (Km 4.9)

Cabo Finisterre

From this jutting peninsula of finis terrae (literally, the end of the world), look out over the cliffs where infinite sky meets the infinite Atlantic Ocean.

Santuario da Virxe da Barca

This picturesque monument on Muxía’s small peninsula, a bottleneck of land between ocean and bay, offers incredible views of sunrise and sunset.

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A Colorado native based in southern New Jersey, Beebe Bahrami extends her idea of home on regular semi-nomadic treks, visits, explorations, and excavations in southwestern France and northern Spain. Having walked the Camino de Santiago now too many times to count, she has also lived on different stretches of the trail. She has survived pigeon, boar, and rabbit hunting season in the Pyrenees, detoured with sheepherders in Rioja, pressed grapes in León, and studied herbs and rituals with a druid in Galicia.

Beebe is the author of two travel memoirs, Café Oc: A Nomad’s Tales of Magic, Mystery, and Finding Home in the Dordogne of Southwestern France, and Café Neandertal: Excavating the Past in One of Europe’s Most Ancient Places. In addition to Moon Camino de Santiago, she has penned several travel guides, including The Spiritual Traveler Spain: A Guide to Sacred Sitesand Pilgrim Routes, and Historic Walking Guides Madrid. Her work also appears in Wine Enthusiast, The Bark, and Archaeology, among others. To read her work, visit http://www.beebebahrami.weebly.com.

When Beebe is not on the trail or writing, she is studying trekking gear catalogs, pouring over obscure cookbooks, trying to master the subjunctive in French and Spanish, doing yoga, and surfing her trusty 7’6″ surfboard while dreaming of her next Camino.

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