Vía de la Plata: today’s Camino de Santiago route

Two things are worth keeping apart, because they are usually confused. The Roman road Emerita–Asturica Augusta (Iter XXIV of the Antonine Itinerary) is the ancient axis, of which stretches of surface, bridges and milestones survive. The «Camino de Santiago de la Vía de la Plata» is the modern route, waymarked with yellow arrows for pilgrims, which uses the historical corridor but in many places runs along farm tracks, drovers' roads and today's roads, leaving the Roman surface behind.

This point records the second: the route in use, not an archaeological remain. The properly Roman stretches of the Vía de la Plata in the municipality of Mérida have pages of their own on the map. Location approximate, on the waymarked route.