CSJ Guides and updates
We publish guides to all the major routes to Santiago. They are deliberately kept simple, so that they can be produced cheaply, and reissued frequently. All are in A5 format, with laminated covers, for ease of use during a pilgrimage.
Between full revisions, we prepare update sheets. These are sometimes done by the guide-writer alone, but often they are based on feedback from pilgrims who have travelled the route in question during the previous year. For each update follow the link beside the original guide in the list below.
All the guides are available through our on-line Bookshop. Since April 2005, we have been putting the updates, as they become available, on this site: follow the update links below to reach them.
We also include on this site brief overviews of all the routes.
Guides Online
Starting in January 2009, we have begun to put some of our shorter guides on-line (Caminos Inglés, Finisterre, and de Invierno; the Tunnel Route, Camino del Salvador and Camino Portugués; plus the Voie Littorale):
details and links are here.
Pilgrim Guides to Spain
1. The Camino Francés: St-Jean-Pied-de-Port to Santiago de Compostela (2011).
2. The Camino Mozárabe or Via de la Plata
A: Seville to Santiago (2005). 2007, 2010 update
B: Granada to Mérida (2009). Update
C: Zamora-Braganza-Santiago (2005). 2007-08 update
3. Finisterre: Santiago to Finisterre and Muxia (2009). Now available on-line (as well as through the Bookshop). Update.
4. Los Caminos del Norte
Introduction (2004)
A: Ruta de la Costa, 1: Irún to Villaviciosa (2010). 2007 update
A: Ruta de la Costa, 2: Villaviciosa-Gijón-Arzúa (2010). Updates
B: The Tunnel Route (2010). Now available on-line (as well as through the Bookshop). Supplementary material and updates
E: The Camino del Salvador (2009). Available on-line
F: The Camino Primitivo (2010). Updates
5a. The Camino Portugués Part 1 Lisbon to Porto (2009). Now available on-line (as well as through the Bookshop). Update 2011.
5b. The Camino Portugués Part 2 Porto to Santiago (2009). Now available on-line (as well as through the Bookshop). Update 2011.
6. Madrid to Sahagún (2010). Now available on-line (as well as through the Bookshop). Updates will be added here as they become available.
7. The Camino Inglés (2011). Now available on-line (as well as through the Bookshop). Updates will be added here as they become available.
8. Camino de Invierno (2010) [a southerly route from Ponferrada to Santiago via Lalín]. Now available on-line (and shortly through the Bookshop). Updates will be added here as they become available.
(N.B. the Camino Aragonés is covered in our guide "Arles to Puente la Reina 4ii) Toulouse to Puente la Reina ", below)
Pilgrim Guides to the Roads through France
1. Paris to the Pyrenees (1998). Updates received 2003 onwards
2. Vézelay to the Pyrenees (1994 + printed update). Updates received 2006 onwards
3. Le Puy to the Pyrenees (2006). 2006 partial update
4. Arles to Puente la Reina (2011) – fully updated new edition January 2011 in two volumes: i) Arles-Toulouse (Jan 2012 update) and ii)Toulouse to Puente la Reina (Jan 2012 update).
5. The Voie Littorale: Soulac to Hendaye (2010). Now available on-line (as well as through the Bookshop). A set of 11 maps of the Route, hand-drawn by the author of the guide, are also available: follow the appropriate link on the Guides On-line page.
Pilgrim Guides to the Roads through Europe
2. Nürnberg to Konstanz (2003)
4. Via Gebennensis: Geneva to Le Puy-en-Velay (2005)
English Pilgrim Routes to Santiago
1. Droitwich to Bristol (1989 + printed update 1994)
City Guides
1. Paris Pilgrim (2nd ed, 2007)
County Guides
1. Leicestershire and the Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela (1995)
2. Warwickshire and the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela (2007)