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Stage 3

Stage of Santa Croya from Tera to Rionegro del Puente

km 27,5

Time 06H 50’

Difficulty High

Hostels 6

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Visit the Romanesque church of Santa Marta de Tera

Information about the stage 3: Stage of Santa Croya from Tera to Rionegro del Puente

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Points of interest in the stage 3: Stage of Santa Croya from Tera to Rionegro del Puente

15 Shrine of the Virgin of Carballeda
14 Albergue de peregrinos Virgen de la Carballeda
13 Río Negro
12 Church of San Pedro
11 Dam of the reservoir of Nuestra Señora de Agavanzal
10 Church of Olleros de Tera
9 Anepigraph miliary
8 Albergue de peregrinos de Calzadilla de Tera
7 Recreation area La Barca
6 Arroyo El Sardón
5 Albergue de Peregrinos de Santa Marta de Tera
4 Santiago peregrino
3 Tera River
2 Wineries
1 Casa Anita

The route

Km 0. Santa Croya de Tera (Hostel. Bar. Shops. Pharmacy)

As soon as we leave Santa Croya we cross the bridge over the Tera, a river that forms Lake Sanabria and donates its flow to the Esla. We enter Santa Marta de Tera, whose 11th century Romanesque church is the jewel of the Sanabrés Road. We speak of the oldest known size of a pilgrim Santiago and it is located in one of the rinses of the southern front. The Apostle, with a staff and a staff, stretches the palm of his hand and overtakes his beauty and mystery. The visit is obligatory. Then you have to go back to resume the path, going down a paved runway.

Km 0.5. Santa Marta de Tera(Hostel. Bars. Store)

The first compass of the stage is the riverside forest of the Tera. Several wooden tablets with the figure of the pilgrim Santiago of Santa Marta guide us through several crosses, where we also draw some streams. With the river on our left the horizon is opening up to the road. We follow her left to cross the Tera. On the shore we will see the swings and sinks of the Recreation Area La Barca (Km 6.4).

As soon as the bridge passes, we leave the road on the right. So we take a path that we will always follow in front of us, as long as we do not see any arrow that tells us another direction. Then we got into a chopera that cuts us off and takes us back to the road to reach another road, this time to the ZA-P-2547, whose nomenclature would be more suited to a robot.

A granite cairn tells us the direction to follow and we continue along the road about 700 meters to leave it on the right. After passing the La Ribera fountain and crossing a canal, we entered Calzadilla de Tera, a town where the Via Augusta passed, the 17th Roman road of the Antonino Itinerary that joined the towns of Braga and Astorga.

Km 11.5. Calzadilla de Tera(Hostel. Bar. Store)

Next to the collapsed church you have to turn right, cross the canal and advance parallel by your right for almost 2 kilometers until you reach the following population:Olleros de Tera, with private hostel.

Km 13.7. Olleros de Tera(Hostel. Bar. Store. Pharmacy)

We leave the town to cross a road and continue on the trail until it rotates right to reach the Shrine of Our Lady of Agavanzal, where a path is taken that also reaches the dam (Km 18).

When we reach the gates of the reservoir we cross the prey and turn left to take the road surrounding the shore. At one point we go away from the reservoir to reach Villar de Farfón, Rionegro del Puente's pedanía, which welcomes us to the region of Carballeda. This population has the hospitality of Craig and Dorothea.

Km 21,5. Villar de Farfón (Craig and Dorothea Hostel)

The route passes through the church of San Pedro. At the exit we take a path that travels first through an open area and gradually is surrounded by vegetation. We face a small slope up to 850 meters of altitude, in a hill from which we can distinguish Rionegro del Puente. After the descent we arrived by some ships and then crossed the Black River. We then went under an arch of the N-525 bridge and entered Rionegro del Puente near the height of the hostel.

Km 27.5. Rionegro del Puente(Hostel. Bars)

The difficulties

Remarks

In images

What to see, what to do

SANTA MARTA DE TERA
- Church of Santa Marta: This 11th century church, with a Latin cross and a single nave, is one of the oldest Romanesque temples in the entire province. It was declared a Historical - Artistic Monument in 1931. In a rinse of the southern front awaits the sculpture of a Santiago Peregrino, an overwhelming figure for its beauty, sobriety and mystery. On its own merits it has become the symbol of the Camino de Santiago Sanabrés or Mozarabic. He wears a zurrón decorated with a shell and a cayenne on the right hand but his main force resides in his left hand, which displays the palm as a greeting. In 1993, on the occasion of the commemoration of the Jubilee Year, coins of five pesetas were coined with the image of this apostle on the obverse.
CALZADILLA DE TERAEhe
same name betrays him. Where today this locality of the Tera Valley is located there was a time when the Via Augusta passed, the Roman road number XVII of the Antonino Itinerary that linked the Portuguese population of Braga with Astorga. In the province of Zamora this road has a length of 60 kilometers.
- Old church of the Just Saints and Rufina: In a ruin state, Romanesque style and with external access bell. His altarpiece, baroque and restored in 1773, moved to the new church.
TERA OLLEROS
- Shrine of Our Lady of Agavanzal: Temple of great devotion among the neighbours of Olleros, who go en masse on the second Saturday of each month of September. The shrine was recently restored and financed by the patronato del Camino de Santiago de Castilla y León.
VILAR DE FARFÓNPertenses
the municipality of Rionegro del Puente and is located near the reservoir of Nuestra Señora de Agavanzal. As the author Eusebio Rodríguez Carrión points out: "It was founded in the 16th century by Doña Rosa Cifuentes and Losada, descendant of the Losada family, Lords of Rionegro and therefore also of Diego de Losada, founder of Caracas".
- Church of St. Peter: Construction of a single vessel. The altarpiece is presided over by the image of San Pedro, a wooden size of over two hundred years. As Eusebio Rodríguez also points out: "Since the foundation of Vilar de Farfón was after the 16th century, it is very possible that the current church is an extension of a primitive hermitage".
RIONEGRO DEL PUENTEPueblo
natal of Diego de Losada, founder of Caracas, and located on the bank of the Río Negro, affluent of the Tera. This locality is the head of the municipality and encompasses three other population entities: Santa Eulalia del Río Negro, Valleluengo and Villar de Farfón. All of them form the region of Carballeda, prior to that of Sanabria and where the Mediterranean mountain begins to merge with more Atlantic species, such as the same carballo, a Galician voice with which the oak is called.
- Old hospital or Casa de la Virgen: The first building that the pilgrim visits upon arriving at Rionegro is the modern hostel, old pilgrim hospital and later it would host.
- Shrine of the Virgin of Carballeda: Property of the Brotherhood of the Falifos, is of Romanesque origin and its appearance has been shaped throughout history. It was extended in the 14th and 15th centuries and completed in the 18th. The temple, made up of three naves, stands out on the outside by its armchair tower of over twenty meters. The interior welcomes the image of the Virgen de la Carballeda, patron of the region and venerated especially at the festival held every third Sunday of September, which besides religious acts has an important fair.
- Phalic Brotherhood: The origins of this brotherhood, which is now in force, are not very clear, although it is very likely to be traced back to the 10th century. In the 14th century Pope Clement VI granted him the Apostolic Blessing and admitted it under his protection. The most important fact is that it was born as a simple gathering of mayors and religious to worship the Virgin and facilitate the passage of the pilgrims who headed to the tomb of the apostle. In its beginnings, it earmarked the money for the construction of bridges and later for housing and hospitals. Falifo, farrapo or vulgarly trapo is a word that designates the inheritance that leaves the brotherhood. This is called because in the past a garment was delivered and then sold to raise funds.