Walking the Camino de Santiago
The village of Población de Campos is not one of those classically quaint villages you sometimes find on the Camino. It’s clearly a no-nonsense working agricultural village, and has been for a long, long time. The archaeology suggests there has been human settlement here since Roman times, though the first documentary evidence of the village dates to the 9th century. […]
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I’m not a fan of highway walking, but if you have to do it, this is the way. I much prefer gravel to tarmac or concrete. This section is pretty much a straight line for ages, which does wear after a while. Fortunately, there’s an alternative route that will soon veer away from the highway and into the Meseta. Not […]
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After leaving Frómista, the Camino follows the P-980 highway, which cuts across the Meseta in something approximating a straight line. It’s maddening, and for me at least, it makes the distance seem longer than it is. Eamon and I spent some time discussing our destination for the night. We’d already come more than 11 km today, and another 9km would […]
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I mean, it’s probably monkeys riding cats there at the capital of this pillar in the Iglesia de San Martín de Tours in Frómista. I’ve limited myself to a single interior photo. If you’re interested in seeing more of this romanesque gem of a church, go see more photos on my Flickr page. Every capital is delightfully different, this despite […]
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This is the keyhole of the main door of the Iglesia de San Martín de Tours in Frómista. I love these little details, which you will find all over the church building. There’s just something about an ancient lock in an ancient door. Date: 15 April 2013Place: Frómista (Province of Palencia, Castilla y León, Spain)Today started: Itero de la Vega […]
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I took more than twenty photos of the exterior of the Romanesque masterpiece of the Iglesia de San Martín de Tours. It is full of details, with different carvings on nearly every detail of the architecture, nothing repeated. I will restrict myself to posting just a couple. This window is, I believe, in one of the side apses. Date: 15 […]
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After lunch in a dive bar that advertised “perrito calliente” for €2 as their lunch special, we made our way to the Romanesque masterpiece of the Iglesia de San Martín de Tours. It was built in the 11th century as part of a monastery, now long gone. The tower was added in the 15th century. After a long period of […]
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It was not quite 11 am when we entered the agricultural town of Frómista. Even so, we had started early in the day, and we were looking for lunch. Sightseeing would have to wait! Although the town is considered a major overnight stopping place for pilgrims, we would be pushing on towards Carrión de los Condos. Yes, it would be […]
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This is a view looking down the lock that the Camino crosses over the Canal de Castilla. The literature and signs indicate that the locks are no longer in use, but the machinery and the infrastructure still appear in pretty good shape. These days, the canals are used primarily for irrigation, rather than the barge transportation for which they were […]
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After Boadilla del Camino, the Camino follows part of the Canal de Castilla, a 207 km long commercial waterway constructed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This part of the walk was quite pleasant; it was not yet hot, and a cool breeze breeze blew through the trees that lined the canal. The photo is of one of the […]
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