CRUCE DE CAMINOS, THE PLACE WHERE DESTINY ALLOWS YOU TO CHOOSE YOUR STORY
For centuries, roads have linked peoples, cultures and landscapes in Spain. Today, these routes are reborn with Cruce de Caminos, a project that connects cultural itineraries that cross the country from north to south and from east to west.
These paths invite you to discover historic cities, ancient art, nature, and living traditions… It’s an experience for those seeking to delve into a country’s memory through its trails and historical encounters. A project that invites you on a journey where every crossroads, every locality, is an opportunity to stop and feel the living history that connects the soul of Spain.
The Crossroads
Within this network of ancient routes, some places stand out as true Crossroads: strategic cities and towns where two or more of the eight great cultural routes that make up the project converge. They are meeting points between civilisations, eras and landscapes, where the traveller not only finds heritage and beauty, but also the key to delving into an entire cultural universe.
ANDALUSIA
CARMONA
One of the most important heritage sites in Andalusia
BAENA
Millennial city with important archaeological sites and a Holy Week declared of National Tourist Interest
ALCALÁ LA REAL
Whose La Mota Castle was key on the Nasrid frontier
EXTREMADURA
CÁCERES
Monumental city where the Roman layout, the Islamic footprint, and Renaissance palaces coexist
MERIDA
Ancient capital of the Roman Empire in Hispania and a true open-air museum.
Castile and León
LEON
With its Roman origins and Gothic splendour
BURGOS
Cradle of the Cid and its cathedral, a World Heritage Site
FROMIST
With its imposing church of San Martín, one of the gems of Romanesque architecture in the peninsula
Aragón
ALBARRACIN
An Islamic kingdom of legend suspended in the canyons of the Guadalaviar.
Cantabria
RAMALES DE LA VICTORIA
Natural and historic enclave on the prehistoric caves route
Valencian Community
BENASSAL
In the heart of the Maestrazgo mountains: ancient history and traditions
At the crossroads, the traveller still feels the power to decide, to improvise, to avoid being trapped by the tedium of certainty.
A crossroads is a destination of a thousand and one nights, where you think your story ends, it is only the starting point for a new adventure, where you think your steps conclude, you will always find an open door to live a new experience.
Do you dare to chart your course?
«Crossroads, the place where Destiny allows you to choose your story»
The initiative is part of the “Tourism Configuration of the Crossroad Network of Spanish Cultural Routes” project, approved in the “Experiences Tourism Spain” call of the Ministry of Industry and Tourism and financed by the European Union through the Next Generation EU funds.
