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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