Camino de Santiago

The Camino Frances has carried pilgrims 768 km across northern Spain for more than a thousand years, from the Pyrenees to the cathedral at Santiago. We draw it from real map data, matched to the road itself. The preview on screen is the finished poster, and it ships straight away.

Make it yours: 17 art styles, 19 colourways and your own title, with the poster redrawing live as you pick.

Giclée-printed at 300 dpi on 200 gsm matte art paper. Framed posters come in black, white or natural timber, ready to hang.

The preview is the finished poster. What you approve on screen is exactly what we print, with no proof to wait on.

The route

The route crosses the Pyrenees at Roncesvalles, then runs west through Pamplona and Logroño, flattens out across the wheat plains of the Meseta toward Burgos and León, and climbs again through Galicia for the final stretch into Santiago. Pilgrims have followed it since the 9th century, after a hermit named Pelayo reported strange lights over a forgotten cemetery in Galicia; Bishop Theodemir of Iria Flavia investigated and declared the remains inside a marble tomb to be the apostle James, and the town took its name, Compostela, from the Latin for that field of stars.

Anyone walking the last 100 km carries a paper credencial, stamped twice a day at churches, town halls, cafes and albergues along the way, then hands it in at the Pilgrims' Office in Santiago for a certificate written out in Latin, free of charge, on the spot. The cathedral bells were already ringing for pilgrims a thousand years before any of that paperwork existed.

Made for someone who walked it. Or for your own wall, because you did.

Related routes: Coast to Coast, GR20 Corsica and Laugavegur Trail.

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