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Stage 15

Stage from Boadilla del Camino to Carrion de los Condes

km 24,6

Time 05H 20’

Difficulty Medium

Hostels 12

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The road takes over Romanesque art and surrounds itself with important churches

Information about the stage 15: Stage from Boadilla del Camino to Carrion de los Condes

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Points of interest in the stage 15: Stage from Boadilla del Camino to Carrion de los Condes

6 Albergue Espíritu Santo
5 Albergue Villalcázar de Sirga
4 Albergue Estrella del Camino
3 Albergue de Frómista
2 Albergue Putzu
1 Albergue de Boadilla del Camino

The route

Km 0. Boadilla del Camino (Hostels. Bar)

After a final review of the decorative filigranas of the jurisdictional roll and the temple of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, which exhibits, by the way, an interesting baptismal stack, we left
Boadilla del Camino by Calle Mayor to take a road that, shortly after the last buildings of the town, turns left and advances to meet the Canal de Castilla. This engineering work was conceived by the Marqués de la Ensenada (1702 - 1781), a statesman and an enlightened politician. The purpose of the river canals network, built between 1753 and 1849, was to transport the Castilian cereal to the Cantabrian Mountains through barges pulled by shooting beasts. It worked until the implementation and regularity of the railways stopped it in 1959. Since then, it drives irrigation and supplies the coastal towns (km 1,8).

Our journey continues parallel to the Canal for more than three kilometres and reaches a set of locks which at this point allowed the boats to save a slope of more than fourteen metres (Km 5). We cross across the Canal and enter the town centre of Frómista. In the center is a tourist information point and the valuable Romanesque church of San Martin that deserves a visit and, of course, photos. It looks like a model, such is the perfection of its scale and its forms. It was built in the 11th century thanks to the sponsorship of Castilla-La Mayor and consists of three naves, 46 capitals, an octagonal dome and two cylindrical towers that look west.

Km 5.7. Frómista (All Services)

After this artistic license we retook the previous itinerary and headed towards the P-980 towards Carrión de los Condes. You have to bypass a couple of roundabouts, placed between the bridge over the highway A-67, to take a non-comforting walker that runs parallel to the road. Jacobean mojones, mathematically aligned from two to two; the rapid roll of cars and our fellow "bicigrinos" and the sown plain that seems to have no end are the only distracting elements in the whole section. The first place to meet is Pueblo de Campos.

Km 9.2. Population of Campos (Hostel. Rural Tourism Centre. Bar. Store)

At the exit, before crossing the Ucieza River, those who want can take the alternative variant that runs through Villovieco and ends up linking with the official road. The others, after passing the river, return the andadero monotone to the next village of Campos.

Km 12.6. Revenga de Campos (Bar)

We cross Revenga by the road, which coincides with General Amor Street, and we pass by the church of San Lorenzo, which doth its tower conquered by the stork nests. At the exit the andadero awaits and revisits us to the nearby Villarmentero de Campos.

Km 14.7. Villarmentero de Campos (Hostel. Rural Tourism Centre. Bar)

Small town with a bar at the entrance and a rest area at the exit and in the shade of pinyon pines. As tiralíneas we continue to Villalcázar de Sirga, a town that crosses along a side but deserves a close visit (Km 18,8).

Km 18.8. Villalcázar de Sirga (Hostel. Hostel. Bar. Store. Palomares Interpretation Centre)

In the plaza the great Templar church of Santa Maria la Blanca rises, built at the end of the 12th in transition from Romanesque to Gothic. You don’t have to leave without taking a look at the southern cover, which presents a Pantocrtor surrounded by the Evangelists and Apostles on a pointed arc of rich archivolts. Anyone who has stayed in Villalcázar (who has left San Nicolás de Puente Fitero or Itero de la Vega already made 27 kilometers) will appreciate how the last lights of the day dye the golden church.

We left Villalcázar de Sirga to resume our beloved andadero. In this final section, it breaks the horizontal with some which is unimportant. There are no surprises until Carrión de los Condes, end of stage. On the banks of the Carrión River, it was once a
town built in two divided neighborhoods. As in the 12th century, various hostels, shops of all kinds and churches, such as that of Santa María del Camino and that of Santiago - the figure of the Pancrator has
already become an icon - accompany the pilgrim's passage through Carrión.

Km 24.6. Carrión de los Condes (All Services)

The difficulties

Remarks

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What to see, what to do

FRÓMISTA:The beautiful
11th century Romanesque church of St. Martin stands out above all monuments and is commissioned by Doña Mayor de Castilla. Reaching the center of the town the first thing you can see is its three apses and the original octagonal cimborrio. On the other hand, the two cylindrical towers deserve to be seen in Romanesque art. In Tuy Square is the parish laiglesia,
dedicated to San Pedro, gothic and Renaissance front page designed by Juan de Escalante. In addition to the parish there is a museum with sculptures, goldsmiths’ pieces and the 29 tables of the largest altarpiece of the church of Santa Maria del Castillo. Some of them were stolen, later recovered, by the well-known art thief Erik the Belgian. Along with the church there is also an ethnographic museum that shows a tour of the different professions and trades. In the church of Santa Maria del Castillo there is a 3D multimedia tour that lasts 35 minutes, called Vestigia, that goes through the history of Phenomista and the Camino de Santiago. Extensive information on the project and this locality can be found at www.vestigia.es. www.fromista.com.
CAMP POPULATION:The population of
Campos was the most important command that the Order of the Hospital of San Juan had in Tierra de Campos although there are currently no remains. In the shadow of an alameda, at the entrance of the town is the small hermitage of San Miguel (Romanesque of the 13th century). The parish church of the Magdalene, of the 16th century and three naves, and the chapel of the Help of the 13th century and in the Romanesque style of transition that keeps a polychrome size of the Virgin, deserve mention.
VILLALCÁZAR DE SIRGA:Popularly known
as Villasirga was the seat of an important Templar office. The church of Santa María de la Blanca (s. XIII), Templar church-fortress belonging to the transitional Romanesque. It has three ships and the imposing portico shows a great richness of sculpture. In his interior
is the image of Santa Maria to which Alfonso X the Sage dedicated several of his portions.
CARRIÓN DE LOS CONDES:His name
refers to the Condes who sent in the two neighborhoods of the city when the Christian kingdoms emerged. Carrión de los Condes was the feudal seat of the powerful Beni-Gómez family, historical rivals of the Cid. She was a dwelling of kings, played a fundamental role in the founding of Castile and was a prosperous medieval city with 12,000 inhabitants (2,231 today), 12 churches and 12 hospitals. The church of Santa Maria del Camino has a sober Romanesque portico in which the tribute of the hundred maids is staged. The church of Santiago has a magnificent cover where 22 figures - in its archivolts - show different trades and on them
- in the frieze - are represented the twelve apostles presided over by an extraordinary image of the Pantocrator that overtakes the pilgrims. The monastery of San Zoilo, now converted into a luxury host, retains a magnificent Renaissance cloister.