Vía de la Plata: Stage 12

You will start this twelfth stage in Casar de Cáceres, in its Ermita de Santiago hermitage. Firstly you will have to walk through a small road and then through a path to the left. You will be walking for seven kilometres through a lovely and calm path. You will be walking for seven kilometres through a lovely and calm path. Un miliario, muy habituales en etapas anteriores, nos recibirá junto a una valla antes de abrir la cancela. Estos monolitos cilíndricos se encontraban ubicados en las antiguas calzadas romanas para informar a los viajeros sobre las distancias entre poblaciones. Es importante recordar cerrar esta cancelas ya que podrían escapar los animales de la zona que se encuentran en algunos casos cercados. Then you will get to another path, you will have to walk through it for approximately two kilometres through Las Condesas and Los Baldíos. You will have to continue straight forward to get to a turn away to the right. You will have to get to the national road, you will have to cross the Almonte river and also the Tagus river. After one kilometer you will have to go towards Embalse de Alcántara that is the end of the stage. f you want to continue to Cañaveral you have to take into account that there are approximately 12 kilometres left where you will have to walk through the hard shoulder.

Bear in mind

You have to take into account that there are nothing between this two villages, so you should buy everything you need such as water and food before leaving Cáceres. This stage does not pose any additional difficulties for cyclists or people with reduced mobility.