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Stage 17

Stage from Terradillos de los Templarios to El Burgo Ranero

km 30,6

Time 07H 00’

Difficulty Medium

Hostels 16

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The pilgrim leaves behind Palencia to enter León by Sahagún

Information about the stage 17: Stage from Terradillos de los Templarios to El Burgo Ranero

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Points of interest in the stage 17: Stage from Terradillos de los Templarios to El Burgo Ranero

6 Albergue La Laguna
5 Albergue del Burgo Ranero, Domenico Laffi
4 Albergue de Peregrinos Cluny
3 Albergue Viatoris
2 Albergue Los Templarios
1 Albergue de Terradillos de los Templarios (Jacques de Molay)

The route

Km 0. Terradillos de los Templarios (Hostel. Bar. Small food store in one of the hostels)

We abandoned the former Templar Ordinance of Terradillos by a piste that dies at P-905, also marked P-973 (Km 1.4). A short section of the road gives way to a track that advances between the cereal and the rows of chopsticks, arranged next to the streams of San Juan and the Strike. This landscape accompanies us to Moratinos, the penultimate town of the Camino de Santiago as it passes through Palencia that looks like excavated wineries and adobe houses: a mass of mud mixed sometimes with straw and used to raise walls and walls.

Km 3.3. Moratinos (Hostel. Hostel. Bar in the hostel itself)

At the height of the church of St. Thomas Aquinas we turn right and leave the village. Two and a half kilometers separate us from San Nicolás del Real Camino, the last palentino town.

Km 5.8. San Nicolás del Real Camino (Hostel. Bar in the hostel itself)

At the exit of St. Nicholas we save the Sequillo River and turn right to take the path of pilgrims that advances along the N-120. One hundred and fifty meters north of this runs the A-231, the highway of the Camino de Santiago. Along the way we cross the boundary between Palencia and León, the last Castilian province that holds the record of kilometers of the Camino. A total of 214.4 awaiting discovery (Km 7,7). We progressed parallel to the N-120, and after crossing it, we passed the Valderabuey River through a stone bridge. Thus we access a wooded esplanade where the chapel of the Virgen del Puente is located, in the Mudéjar Romanesque style (Km 10.3).

After one third of the stage, the Camino leads us to Sahagún. Avoiding the N-120 below (Km 11,6) we access the urban area of this Leonese locality. After Ronda de Estación Street we crossed the bridge over the roads, passed by the municipal hostel and continued through the streets La Herrería and Antonio Nicolás.

Km 13. Sahagún (All Services)

Sahagún exhibits the Mudejar art in the churches of San Lorenzo and San Tirso, raised by alarifes that dispelled the stone and burned their works with brick. Also, at the end of Antonio Nicolás Street, we can see the baroque arc of San Benito. Later, we saved the river Cea - affluent of the Esla - by the bridge Canto, which fired Sahagún (km 13.7).

The day continues along a tree-lined walk parallel to the access road to the N-120. At the foot of the national road, before passing the diversion to Mayorga, the trees disappear and the walk becomes a walker. By begging the vegetation that separates us from the road, we saved a creek and a half kilometer after crossing the N-120. In short, along with a marquesina, a stone cartel warns, badly, of the double alternative that presents itself: from the front it continues the Royal French Way to Bercians and Burg Ranero. To the right, saving the A-231 highway by a bridge, you immediately access Calzada del Coto and from this population to Calzadilla de los Hermanillos. There is also the option of entering Calzada del Coto and returning to the Royal French Way by another bridge located at the end of the town (in fact the original fork has always persisted at this point to take one route or another). Both routes meet again on the next day (Km 17.4).

We continue ahead of the Real Camino Francés (the alternative for Calzada del Coto and Calzadilla is briefly described in the comments section). A dirt lane, built ex profeso for pilgrims and shaded by an endless line of false bananas (Acer pseudoplatanus), will accompany us for the next 32.2 kilometers. A paved track used by pilgrims by bike flows next door. The transit to Bercianos del Real Camino is quite monotonous and, after an hour of walking, on the left hand, we see on a esplanade the chapel of Nuestra Señora de Perales (Km 21,5). Later, after crossing a stream and leaving aside the cross in memory of the German pilgrim Manfred Kress, we entered Bercianos del Real Camino.

Km 23. Bercianos del Real Camino (Hostels. Bar. Store)

At the entrance of Bercians greets us a fountain decorated with a vieira. We cross the village through its Calle Mayor in the company of adobe, basic material of the traditional architecture of these first Leonese villages. In Bercians, a pair of ultramarines and a bar allow us to replenish forces to face the last part of the stage. We left the village to resume the trail of false bananas, in turn contemplating the small vine plots that sprinkle the fields. After two kilometers we arrive at a rest area next to the Olmo Creek (Km 25.1).

Then, the wooded track advances to a viaduct of the A-231 (Km 28,7) highway and then to El Burgo Ranero. We crossed a road to enter this town at the height of a child memorial cruise. It is possible to continue in front of Calle Real or to borrow the village on the road to the hostels of pilgrims.

Km 30.6. El Burgo Ranero (Hostels. Bars. Store. Pharmacy)

The difficulties

Remarks

In images

What to see, what to do

MORATINOS:
The church of St. Thomas Aquinas was built in brick between the 16th and 17th centuries. Inside there is a size of the Virgin with the Child Jesus of the 16th century.
SAN NICOLÁS DEL REAL CAMINO:This
small town of Moratinos is the last palentine town on the Camino de Santiago Francés. As José María Lacarra gathers in the second volume of Las Peregrinaciones a Santiago de Compostela, "in San Nicolás del Real Camino there was in the 12th century a leper hospital ruled by canonigos of San Agustín".
SAHAGÚN:Sahagún
is a small capital of 2,811 inhabitants (according to the INE 2012) that offers all kinds of services. We are already in the province of León, on the banks of the Cea River, where its origins are, by the way, in an old hermitage dedicated to the martyrs Facundo and Primitivo. It had a splendid past and was called the Spanish Cluny, as it grew under the shelter of the Benedictine monastery of Saint Benedict. Artists brought from Muslim Spain the Mudejar art (use of brick instead of stone) that gave rise to the famous monuments of Sahagún.
- Church of San Lorenzo: It was built in the 13th century and bears the stamp of the Mudéjar Alarifes. Tower of four bodies, basic floor (without transept dividing the three naves of the presbytery), three abombated apses decorated in blind clay and brick, much brick, define this church. In the face of its clear deterioration, which leads to fear of its collapse, the Board has at last called for the procurement of works for restoration.
- Church of San Tirso:Of the same type as San Lorenzo, although older, San Tirso began to be built with stone sillares, the purest Romanesque style, in the early 12th century. However, it continued to be built in brick.
- Shrine of the Pilgrim: Dominating Sahagún on a hill outside the city, the church of the Pilgrim, also in Mudéjar Romanesque, was built at the end of the 13th century and inhabited by a community of Franciscans. The height it housed of the 17th-century Pilgrim Virgin of Luisa Roldán is found in the Benedictine Mothers of Sahagún. The restoration works of 2010 and 2011 have made it a Documentation Center of the Camino de Santiago. To the pilgrims who visit them, they seal the credential and give them 'La Carta Peregrina', a document that demonstrates having passed through the Geographic Center of the Camino de Santiago, in Sahagún.
- Arc de San Benito:You can see the exit of Sahagun. He is a 17th-century baroque and replaced a Romanesque gate of the ruinous and missing monastery of San Benito. This monastery of the Benedictine order adopted the cluniacense reform in 1080.
BERCIANOS DEL REAL CAMINO:It
owes its name to the repopulation with people from the region of Bierzo. Before Bercians, on the left hand of the walker and on a esplanade equipped with several stone tables, is the chapel of Nuestra Señora de Perales, popularly known as La Perala. An inscription remembers that who prayed a salve to the Virgen de Perales would get 40 days of indulgence. A new temple has replaced its slender parish church in El Salvador, which collapsed and remains in ruins. Inside was a Renaissance height of St. John the Baptist and the tomb of Mrs. Leonor de Quiñones, Mrs. Bercianos. A kilometer and a half from the village, in the Olmo Valley, is the Fountain of Rosemary.
EL BURGO RANERO:By
his route and by his name he refers to the pilgrimage, his main street was called Camino Francés and now is Calle Real. His church, dedicated to St. Peter, kept a beautiful Romanesque size of the Virgin, today at the Cathedral Museum of León. Lost in the plain, El Burgo Ranero offers warmth, several hostels and restaurants, as well as shops and pharmacy. Many pilgrims photographed the spectacular sunsets from the Apple Lagoon.
CALZADA DEL COTO:This town is already listed in the oldest documentation of the monastery of Sahagún (s. X). It is since the ninth century a clear road reference for the Camino in Castilla. The parish church is dedicated to San Esteban. The new wooded road is a wonder for the pilgrim in the middle of the Leonese wasteland. Another way to reach Mansilla de las Mules is to follow the old Via Trajana, Roman road from which remains vestiges.