2027 EDITION – COMING SOON
The Way to Santiago: Every Mile of it
More Than a Cycling Tour
Two Weeks Across Northern Spain
For more than a thousand years, people have crossed northern Spain to reach Santiago de Compostela. Some come for faith, some for the challenge, some just to see a side of the country that most visitors never slow down enough to find.
However you come to it, the Camino has a way of becoming personal.
We ride the whole French Way by bike, from the French foot of the Pyrenees all the way to the cathedral in Santiago, at a pace that leaves room for the good part. Nearly eight hundred kilometers, but no rush - mornings on the bike, long lunches, wine country and mountain passes, cathedral cities and villages of ten houses, and a support van behind you the whole way.
Sixteen Days From the Pyrenees to Santiago
DAY 1
Arrival in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port
You land and a private transfer takes you up to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, the small walled town on the French side of the Pyrenees where the Camino Frances begins.
Time to settle in and have your bike fitted, then a welcome dinner to meet the group and open the week. Tomorrow, the mountains.
DAY 2
Over the Pyrenees to Roncesvalles
The most famous start on the whole Camino, and the hardest climb of the trip taken slowly. You cross the Pyrenees on the Napoleon route, up through high pastures with the whole range opening around you, then over the pass into Spain and down through beech forest to the monastery of Roncesvalles. A long day, a big one, and the one everyone remembers.
DAY 3
Roncesvalles to Pamplona
A gentler day down through the green valleys and forests of Navarre, past medieval villages and the sound of cowbells. You reach Pamplona by afternoon, the city of the running of the bulls and of Hemingway, with time to walk the old town and have pintxos and a glass of Navarra red in the Plaza del Castillo.
DAY 4
Pamplona to Estella
Out of the city and up to the Alto del Perdon, the ridge lined with iron pilgrim sculptures and wind turbines turning above you.
Down to the perfect medieval bridge at Puente la Reina, then on to Estella. Near here, at the Irache monastery, a fountain pours free wine for pilgrims, and yes, you stop.
DAY 5
Estella to Logrono
Today the vineyards begin. You ride into La Rioja, Spain's most famous wine country, on quiet roads that run between the vines. In the evening in Logrono you do what the locals do, and work your way down Calle Laurel one small pintxo and one small glass at a time.
DAY 6
Logrono to Santo Domingo de la Calzada
More of La Rioja, through Najera and its red rock, with vineyards on both sides almost the whole way. You finish in Santo Domingo de la Calzada, a town built around its pilgrims and famous for the medieval legend of the hen and the rooster, still kept alive inside the cathedral.
DAY 7
Santo Domingo de la Calzada to Burgos
You cross into Castile and the land opens up, a day of rolling wheat country and big skies. It ends in Burgos, one of the great stops on the Camino, where the Gothic cathedral is so vast it stops you in the street. Dinner tonight is Castilian, roast lamb and a glass of Ribera del Duero.
DAY 8
Burgos to Fromista
The Meseta begins. Flat, straight and wide open, the high plain of Castile that most people skip and cyclists quietly love. You follow the old Canal de Castilla for part of the way and finish in Fromista, at one of the purest Romanesque churches in Spain, San Martin, eleventh century and almost untouched.
DAY 9
Fromista to Sahagun
A day of pure Meseta, with enormous horizons, wheat to every edge, and the road running dead straight ahead while the sky does all the work. It sounds like nothing and it turns out to be one of the most memorable days of the trip. Coffee in Carrion de los Condes, then on to Sahagun.
DAY 10
Sahagun to Leon
The last of the Meseta, and then the city everyone looks forward to. Leon is a proper stop, with a cathedral that holds some of the finest stained glass in Europe, lit up like jewels in the afternoon, and the Barrio Humedo made for a long evening out.
DAY 11
Leon to Astorga
Over the long medieval bridge at Hospital de Orbigo, one of the oldest on the Camino, and on to Astorga. Small, walled and completely worth it, with a cathedral, a fairy-tale bishop's palace designed by Gaudi, and the local cocido maragato, a feast eaten backwards, meat first.
DAY 12
Astorga to Ponferrada
Into the mountains again. You climb steadily through slate villages to Cruz de Ferro, the highest point of the Camino, where for centuries pilgrims have left a stone brought from home. From there a long, beautiful descent through Molinaseca brings you down to Ponferrada and its Templar castle.
DAY 13
Ponferrada to O Cebreiro
Through the Bierzo, a warm green valley with its own wine and orchards, before the day's reward and its challenge, the climb into Galicia. At the top sits O Cebreiro, a tiny village of round stone houses called pallozas, often above the clouds, where Galicia truly begins.
DAY 14
O Cebreiro to Portomarin
Down out of the high country into deep green Galicia, all stone walls, chestnut woods and small farms. You pass the ancient monastery of Samos and the busy little town of Sarria, and finish above the water in Portomarin, a town rebuilt stone by stone up the hillside when the valley below was flooded.
DAY 15
Portomarin to Santiago de Compostela
The final day, and a long and joyful one. Through eucalyptus forest and a stop in Melide for Galician octopus, then up to Monte do Gozo, where you catch your first sight of the cathedral towers. You ride into the old city and the Praza do Obradoiro, and it is done. Farewell dinner tonight.
DAY 16
Journey Home
A slow last breakfast in Santiago. No rush and no packing chaos, you leave the bikes with the team and a private transfer takes you to the airport for your flight home. Nearly eight hundred kilometers of Spain in your legs, and the Camino, as everyone says, staying with you long after the ride is over.
The Man Behind the Roads
Rodolfo Massi won a stage at the Tour de France in the Pyrenees. He won a stage at the Giro d'Italia. He wore the King of the Mountains jersey - the polka dots - through the same cols you'll ride on this trip.
He's not a tour operator who studied a map. He's a former professional who spent his career on these exact roads. He knows where the gradient kicks, where the wind hits, where to stop for the view that nobody else knows about. And he knows something most guides don't: how to make a climb feel like a gift instead of a punishment.
Today, Rodolfo takes a handful of people each year through the mountains that shaped his life. Not to race. Not to suffer. To feel what it's like to ride roads that were built for something extraordinary - with someone who lived it.
Massi's "Service Course" Treatment
We handle every logistical detail so your mind remains completely free.
Note: flights, medical insurance, room upgrades and personal expenses are not covered.
Worried You're Not Fast Enough?
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Every single person who books this trip asks some version of the same question:
"Can I actually do this?"
Yes. Here's why.
This is not a race. There is no pace to hold and no group to keep up with. Rodolfo has guided riders of every level through these cols - from people who train five days a week to people who ride on weekends when the weather is nice.
The support van follows the group every day. If you hit a wall, you can still enjoy the view in the van without judgment. If you want an e-bike for the bigger days, several guests choose exactly that every trip.
The only thing that matters is that you enjoy riding. If you're worried about being a burden, that worry itself is proof that you're the kind of person this trip was made for: someone who cares about the experience and the people around them.
the investment
16 days across Spain with Rodolfo Massi. Luxury accommodation, all dinners, airport transfers, full ride support, and mechanical service included.
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