The current appreciation of El Camino, the pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela, is the climb of the Pyrenees from south-west France and the descent towards journey’s end at the shrine of St James the Great. But that is, and always has been, for the majority only the last leg. In the Middle Ages Compostela ranked beside Rome as the great devotional pilgrimage whether the pilgrim set out from Britain, Scandinavia, northern or eastern Europe. If from eastern Europe the pilgrim would cross Austria to reach Switzerland and then France. If from what is now Slovakia he would cross the Danube at Bratislava and walk steadily eastwards on the High Road to reach the Swiss border at Feldkirch. If from Hungary he might enter Austria close to Gratz and turn south to reach the Drau in what is now Slovenia, and then follow its course westwards to its source in Sud Tyrol. The Reinz would then lead him on to the Brenner Pass, descending to join the High Road in Innsbruck. If from what is now the Czech Republic or from eastern Bavaria he would join the Inn at Passau and follow it south via Kufstein, again to join the High Road at Innsbruck. A variant runs from Passau to join the High Road at Salzburg. So within the bounds of historic Austria (Austria before the reprisals of the Great War) there were three distinct Austrian ways feeding into the Austrian High Road to Compostela.