The French Way of Saint James Province of Burgos
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- Castildelgado
This village, also known as Villa de Pun, still preserves many traditional elements like the bakery, now owned private Concejil old, and old forge with his colt. Hospital was founded by Alfonso VII pilgrims.
- Tosantos
The etymological origins of this small enclave back to the years 970 and 972 when it appears as iuxta rivum of Tolsanctos. A document from 1084 put the enclave in direct relation with the Camino de Santiago:...
- San Juan de Ortega
Small village of 29 in the municipality of Barrios de Colina. It is renowned for its hospitable reputation since it was founded by the Saint of the same name. It is an important milestone in the Way of...
- Santovenia de Oca
At the edge of San Juan de Ortega by the current road reaches a crossroads identified by a wooden cross where we can take the alternative route that leads to the town of Santovenia de Oca. Few remnants...
- Ibeas de Juarros
From Zalduendo follow the current road N-120 to merge with the main road in the village of Arlanzón Ibeas. The construction of this popular village is characterized by stones from the quarries of the nearby...
- Castrillo del Val
The absence of orographic accidents on this alternative route of the Way allows the itinerary from Ibeas to Castañares is relatively straight. In between, it is the jurisdiction of Castrillo del Val, where...
- San Medel
Among Ibeas and Burgos, the road runs parallel to the river Arlanzón through a series of locations, some of them missing as Castrillo de la Vega, Hospital San Martín Yermo or River before reaching San...
- Castañares
Before coming to this enclave the route passes through the Causeway Hospital attached to the monastery of San Pedro de Cardena. This place manor belonged first to the monastery of San Juan de Burgos and...
- Villayuda o La Ventilla
There is documentation of this core population since 931 from the Gothic Calf Cardena. We also know that the King Alfonso VII won this settlement to the Cathedral of Burgos whose dominion belong to the...
- Agés
This small enclave was donated in 1052 to Santa María la Real de Nájera by King García of Navarra. Throughout its history has had different names as Fagege and Hagege.Moreover, in this village you can...
- Atapuerca
Doña Urraca Atapuerca donated the villa to the Military Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, whose members attended carefully to the sick pilgrims. Alfonso VII confirm this donation in the year...
- Cardeñuela Riopico
Located in Pico River Valley, once passed the site of Atapuerca, we come to this village.Moreover, in this village you can find: the Parish Church of Santa Eulalia de Mérida, the Roman Fountain and the...
- Orbaneja Riopico
The layout of this town is completely adapted to the route of St James. From this location, and for many miles, and dominates the plain to the west you can see and the city of Burgos.Moreover, in this...
- Villafría
Alfonso IV gives the town of Villa Frida in San Pedro de Cardena in the year 931. Its proximity to the capital explains the virtual disappearance of the elements of traditional heritage.Moreover, in this...
- Burgos
The ‘caput Castellae’ founded around 884 by Count Diego Rodriguez Porcelos, was and is one of the most important in the Way. The city had its great expansion during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries...
- Tardajos
The old Augustobriga is built on Roman settlements and along the Roman road of Clunia (in Coruña del Conde).Moreover, in this village you can find: the Church of Santa María, the Apostolic School of the...
- Rabé de las Calzadas
This is the junction of two Roman roads and the Power Tower Prao.Moreover, in this village you can find: the Parish Church of Santa Marina, the Shrine of Nuestra Señora del Monasterio and a Palace, dates...
- Hornillos del Camino
This town is one of the most outstanding examples of town-road, with a single street, the Calle Real, which is the stele of the Way. Included a number of hospitals that still retains the Holy Spirit to...
- Hontanas
This village from numerous sources, hence the derivation of the name ‘Fontana’, still as a vestige of St James the ‘Inn of the French’, a former hospital for pilgrims. It has a tower in his castle of cultural...
- Castrojeriz
At the foot of a hill dominated by an imposing castle and next to the Odra River, is the beautiful Burgos town of Castrojeriz. A historic Jacobean enclave, the two kilometers that pilgrims cross on their...
- Viloria de Rioja
This village is home of D. Domingo Garcia, known as Santo Domingo de la Calzada. A project to rehabilitate the birthplace of the saint in a building opposite the church credited as ancient documents.Moreover,...
- Villamayor del Río
Most of the houses in this village preserved folk architecture model that dominates the region of Burgos Riojilla timbered upper floors, gravel on the ground floor and roofs blown.Moreover, in this village...
- Belorado
Medieval town of Roman origin took part in the ninth century the line of border fortresses Castilian County. In the twelfth century Alfonso I of Aragon granted privileges becoming an important medieval...
- Villambistia
This town is distributed on a hillside, once belonged to the jurisdiction of the Hospital of Villafranca. A source of several streams and the memory of the late hospital of Charity link the nucleus with...
- Redecilla del Camino
It is the first Xacobean town in Castilla y Leon. It is the first municipality in the Way of St. James of the province of Burgos and the Xacobean way in Casitlla y Leon. The ‘Radicella’ Calixtinus Codex...
- Espinosa del Camino
Here the French Way begins its slow ascent to the Montes de Oca. The current route runs through the long street while in the past coincided with the Camino Real on the outskirts of the village. The population...
- Villafranca Montes de Oca
The name of this town brings us echoes of its glorious past when it was an Episcopal. It was also a feared point in the medieval Xacobean layout because at the beginning Montes de Oca was plagued by bandits...
- Zalduendo
The Way reaches from Santovenia Zalduendo through a secondary road opened from San Juan de Ortega. This nucleus in its architecture combines adobe buildings and stately mansions fabric from which the best...
