24/10/2025
Councillor Bestard has announced that the proposed route starts at the Lluc monastery and ends at the Church of Sant Jaume in Palma, with a distance of 67.1 kilometres passing through ten municipalities of the island.
The Department of Environment, Rural Environment and Sports of the Consell de Mallorca presented this Friday the layout of the new walking route to do the Camino de Santiago from Mallorca, which begins at the Lluc sanctuary and finishes at the Church of Sant Jaume in Palma.
The proposed itinerary of the future walking route of the Camino de Santiago from Mallorca will run through ten municipalities of the island:
The Second Vice-President and Councillor for Environment, Rural Environment and Sports, Pedro Bestard, took part in the presentation of the initial project for the layout of the Camino de Santiago route in Mallorca.
The event was attended by the president of the Federation of Local Entities of the Balearic Islands (FELIB), Jaume Ferriol; the FELIB's secretary general, Neus Serra; the island director of Environment, Luis Rubí; and the head of the Environment Service, Josep Antoni Aguiló, who explained the details of the layout.
Also present was the parish priest of the Church of Mare de Déu de Montserrat and president of the Association of Friends of the Camino de Santiago of the Balearic Islands and canon of the Cathedral of Santiago, Jaume Alemany, promoter of the Jacobean route in Mallorca.
The Councillor for Environment, Pedro Bestard, explained that "we are working on the route design project to make a new walking route on the island a reality and to fulfil the wish of many Mallorcan pilgrims who wanted to be able to undertake the Camino de Santiago from Mallorca. It is an exciting project that materialises with a route that will be perfectly signposted so that it can be completed without any difficulty".
For his part, Jaume Ferriol pointed out that "as a Federation representing all the municipalities of the island, as well as the Consell de Mallorca, from the first moment we became aware of this project, we did not hesitate to support it".
"A specific stamp has been created for each town along the route so that pilgrims can stamp it on their Camino de Santiago credential, as tradition dictates," explained the president of FELIB.
Ferriol also wanted to "recognise the fundamental role that Jaume Alemany has played in this project. Without him it would not have been possible. Thank you very much, Jaume," the president of FELIB said.
The technical drafting of the project will be carried out by the Dry Stone Unit of the Department of Environment, Rural Environment and Sports, and it will define the stages and signage so that pilgrims can complete the route without any difficulty and with maximum safety.
Thus, the itinerary proposed by the Dry Stone Unit establishes that the future walking route will have a distance of 67.1 kilometres, with a main itinerary of 58.1 km and another 9 kilometres of access routes. Different stages are envisaged so that the route can be completed over several days.
Access points:
The Department of Environment expects the final project to be drafted in the first half of 2026 and for construction to be able to begin that same year.
Consell de Mallorca (24 OCTOBER 2025, 17:05). https://www.conselldemallorca.es/es/noticia1/-/asset_publisher/0kVpLMnZrHVi/content/el-consell-presenta-el-tra%C3%A7at-de-la-nova-ruta-senderista-del-cam%C3%AD-de-santiago-des-de-mallorca/695139
