The route starts this day, after having left Sahagún, in Calzada del Coto. At the entrance of this village, the Jacobean Street, the route forks in two, uniting again in Mansilla de las Mulas: the Royal French Route, which goes through El Burgo Renero; and the Hermanillos road, which goes along the antique Roman Calzada Trajana.

Following the French Route, the pilgrim will first arrive at Bercianos del Real Camino, where the El Salvador Church stands, with a carving of Saint Joan the Baptist and a painting of the Stations of the Cross inside, both from the sixteenth century.