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Stage 4

Stage of Rionegro Del Puente to Puebla De Sanabria

km 40,5

Time 10H 15’

Difficulty High

Hostels 6

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Carballeda is abandoned to conquer the lands of Baja Sanabria

Information about the stage 4: Stage of Rionegro Del Puente to Puebla De Sanabria

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Points of interest in the stage 4: Stage of Rionegro Del Puente to Puebla De Sanabria

16 San Cayetano Hermitage
15 Church of Our Lady of the Azogue
14 Castillo
13 St. Thomas Parish
12 Trail and road section
11 Our Lady of Carmen
10 Entrepeñas
9 Church of Transfiguration
8 Albergue de San Salvador de Palazuelo
7 Church of Purification
6 San Lorenzo Parish Church
5 Santa Maria Parish Church
4 Albergue de Mombuey
3 Shrine of the Virgin of Carballeda
2 Albergue de peregrinos Virgen de la Carballeda
1 Río Negro

The route

Km 0. Rionegro del Puente(Hostel. Bars)

We walk out the street of La Vereda, which is hitting the side of the hostel, and turn right next to the ruins of the old school. Here we take a road, a hundred meters away from the N-525, by which we say goodbye to the last houses of Rionegro del Puente. Later we crossed a bridge over the A-52, the so-called highway of the Rías Bajas. As soon as we go, we turn left and walk parallel to the highway for just over a kilometer. We are distancing ourselves from the highway to cross the road heading to Santa Eulalia (Km 3,6).

With the reference of the N-525, which advances to our left, we follow a well-marked open field path with wooden strips. The Mediterranean forest of previous days has been replaced by more Atlantic species such as oak and aliaga, commonly known as tojo, a thorny bush of yellow flowers omnipresent in Galician lands. As the kilometers pass, the path ends up approaching the N-525 and, after a gas station and a hostel, we access Mombuey.

Km 9.4. Mombuey(All services)

We head to the church of Santa Maria, notable for its Romanesque tower of clear defensive appearance, and we pass by the cruise. On the paved runway we cross a diversion from the national to take a path between oak which is glued to the arcén (Km 10). Two kilometers later we crossed a bridge over the highway and then the roads of the AVE, point from which they begin to see granite studs with engraved scallops, a wager and investment from the Municipality of Cernadilla that deserves our applause. After its wake we arrived to Valdemerilla, a small pedanía from the municipality of Cernadilla that maintains a church dedicated to San Lorenzo.

Km 13.9. Valdemerilla

We enter the population through Prince of Asturias Street and then leave it by the Plaza de la Constitución. The section of more than 3 kilometers that separates Valdemerilla from Cernadilla does not present any difficulty, so after going through it we enter this last village next to the chapel of the Christ, turn left and pass shortly to the height of the Baroque church of the Purification, which we left at hand left.

Km 17.4. Cernadilla (hostel, temporarily closed)

By cement track and some asphalt we will advance to San Salvador de Palazuelo, another hamlet from the Municipality of Cernadilla. Here is another hermitage and a little later the church of the Transfiguration. If we're animated, we can climb up the exterior staircase to its bell-tower. The views are great.

Km 19.3. San Salvador de Palazuelo

At the exit of Palazuelo we take a large forest track that goes down and up to a road. After crossing it we take a road that after 600 meters reverses in asphalt and leads to the entrance of Entrepeñas.

Km 22.6. Entrepeñas(Rustic House)

From here to the next population they mediate approximately forty minutes on a road that will lead us to cross the AVE tracks and soon after the highway. In Asturians we go to the N-525 at the height of the parish of Nuestra Señora del Carmen.

Km 25.5. Asturians(Hostel. Bars. Pharmacy)

If we don't want to follow the arrows inside the population, because they take us back to the national one, we can move 400 meters down the shoulder of the road and take the signalized detour that comes out on the right hand and continues on another secondary road. A few hundred meters later we left it on the left to take a road, later piste, which leads us to pass through the upper part of Palacios de Sanabria (Km 28,6 of the stage).

Km 28.6. Palaces of Sanabria (Bar)

After passing the hermitage we cross a road and go to a path surrounded by robles melojos. Given the large number of corks, this section is ideal for watching them. The path leads us, after crossing two roads, to Remesal.

Km 31. Remesal

We are now heading towards the next locality, Otero de Sanabria, 3 kilometres away again crossing the highway.

Km 34. Otero de Sanabria

The journey through Otero, which leads us to follow the tradition of passing by the church, this time the portentous St. Thomas Apostle, takes almost a kilometer and leads us to take a road to Orly not before crossing the highway again, this time by a tunel.

Km 36,3. Yle

We went out in asphalt and, of course, we crossed the highway again to get out to the N-525. After 600 meters of arcén we reach the roundabout of entrance to Puebla de Sanabria, end of this marathon. Arrabal Street is 40.5 km away.

Km 40.5. Puebla de Sanabria(All services)

The difficulties

Remarks

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What to see, what to do

MOMBUEYLnality
of the Zamorana region of Carballeda, of just over 400 inhabitants and dedicated to the services sector. Its excellent location, at the foot of the N-525, has been reduced by the passage of the A-52 motorway.
- Santa Maria Parish Church: Temple of single nave and Latin cross plant whose current appearance owes it to the great reforms it underwent in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Undoubtedly its most outstanding element, and that of the whole villa, is the tower. It is a 13th-century Romanesque watchtower, clearly defensive and attributed to the Order of the Temple. It is made of armchair and consists of three bodies. Two sides of the tower are rounded by a cornice of arches on modillones with balls, flowers and human figures.
VALDEMERILLAPedanía
del Ayuntamiento de Cernadilla. At your entrance, we can read: "This people embodies peace and everything is relative. Few here are crowds."
CERNADILLAMunicipio
including the pedanías of Valdemerilla and San Salvador de Palazuelo. After many years of waiting it has started to receive water from the nearby Valparaiso reservoir, from an installed outlet in the area of some old anegated mills. The City Hall has brilliantly conditioned the Camino as it passes through the end and signaled it with granite studs engraved with scallops.
- Parish Church of Purification: Construction of the 17th or 18th centuries. The altarpiece is decorated by a large set of baroque pieces.
SAN SALVADOR DE PALAZUELO
- Church of the Transfiguration:
  Its two covers are Romanesque, half-point arc. The rest is from the 17th and 19th centuries, when the cruise, the head and the chapels were built.
ASTURIANOSMunicipio
of the region of Carballeda comprising the localities of Cerezal de Sanabria, Entrepeñas, Lagarejos de la Carballeda, Riorabbits and Villar de los Pisones.
- Our Lady of Carmen: Also called Chapel of Carmen. Characterized by its sobriety, it hides inside several 18th-century Baroque altarpieces. One of them shows an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe. It retains a baroque baptismal pile.
REMESALEn
1506, in a hermitage situated in an alquería of this Zamorano town Fernando the Catholic met with Felipe the Hermoso to discuss the government of the Kingdom of Castile, in the hands of Doña Juana and very rarefied after the death of Isabel the Catholic.
OTERO DE SANABRIAJunto Remesal and Vime is
a small town in Palacios de Sanabria.
- Parish of St. Thomas Apostle: Church of the basilic floor and three naves that presents the Romanesque, neoclassical, mudéjar and baroque styles. In the 18th century the old Romanesque temple was destroyed, raised in turn over the previous one, and the current three ships were erected. It has a 60-square-meter Renaissance altarpiece in polychrome wood.
- Shrine of Our Lady of Remedies: He was born as an austera hermitage, perhaps also Romanesque and contemporary to the church of St. Thomas Apostle. The current temple is a powerful baroque construction of three naves and composed by two towers of the second half of the 19th century. One of them is the work of Astorga Quarries and the other of Galician Quarries.
PUEBLA DE SANABRIA:
Situated on a promontory over the rivers Tera y Castro has an enviable strategic position between Castilla, Galicia and Portugal. It was declared an Artistic Historical Complex thanks to its traditional architecture, its blasphemed houses and the cobblestone of its streets.
- Castillo (Puebla de Sanabria): It was ordered to build in the early sixteenth century by Don Rodrigo Alonso Pimentel and Doña María Pacheco, the IV Condes de Benavente. Built in a granite armchair it has a walled enclosure with a prominent homage tower, popularly known as "The Male".
- Church of Our Lady of the Azogue: Temple of a single nave with a Latin cross plan built between the end of the 12th century and the beginning of the 13th. The Romanesque figures dressed in medieval costumes stand out on the western front, forming the stems of the columns.
- Ermita de San Cayetano (Puebla de Sanabria): From the 18th century and built by order of the Ossorio family. The main altar has a baroque altarpiece with two richly decorated Salomon columns.
- Old pilgrim hospital: Located in the area of the Well wall it was ordered to build in the early sixteenth century by the Pimentel.