The French Way of Saint James Province of Leon
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- Calzada del Coto
This enclave at one time called Villa Zacharias, takes its name from an original Roman road and the name of belonging to the monastery sahaguniano. Municipality torn between the past represented in its...
- Calzadilla de los Hermanillos
To reach Calzadilla must follow the path of the old road or Via Trajan, from Tarragona to Astorga, through the meadow of Valdelocajos and so getting to this city of typical architecture of adobe and cob.
- Villamoros de Mansilla
This town was formerly known as the French Way Villamor entering this traditional path of Main Street. Villamor As mentioned in the year 1173, membership in the administrative district of Villalquite as...
- Puente de Villarente
The bridge, which already impressed to Aymeric who calls it ‘huge’ in the twelfth century and the functional disposition of the hospital in which it was established that there would be an ass on the verge...
- Puente Castro
The Castrum Iudearum (Castro of the Jews) is actually a prelude to the city of León, a neighborhood of this teeming city, and almost nothing to remind the famed Jewish or Jewish community that was the...
- Estación de Villadangos
Corresponds to a small group headed by the railway station which has its influence and service area in the nearby town of Villadangos del Páramo, located a few miles, and whose municipality depends. The...
- Astorga
This teeming city is the center of Maragatería and place where two paths of pilgrims meet: French way and Via de la Plata. Is this a city with over two thousand years of history which has been declared...
- El Ganso
In the twelfth century had this enclave Hospital and Monastery. It preserves some houses where Teito, thatched roof, very similar to pallozas.Moreover, in this village you can find the Parish Church of...
- Rabanal del Camino
It's the end of the ninth stage of the famous Codex Calixtinus. A surprising entry a large oak tree known as ‘pilgrims’. In times was an important enclave in the way many hospitals and churches and the...
- Molinaseca
The medieval way takes us from Riego de Ambrasto to Molinaseca. You enter in the city by the famous Calle Real, genuine pilgrims' tow. The villa is declared as a Historic.Moreover, in this village you...
- Columbrianos
Still be seen in this enclave remains of ancient pre-Roman forts. This hamlet of Ponferrada, its hull are more like mansions and the Regalao Tormaleo reminiscent Columbrianos possessions that were once...
- Trabadelo it
In Trabadelo again we reach the layout of the VI National. The enclave was resettled by Bishop Gelmírez and belonged to the church of Compostela.Moreover, in this village you can find: the Parish Church...
- Vega de Valcarce
Between Castro Veiga, of which nothing remains, and Castrosarracín, cited by Aymeric Picaud in Guide as Sarracenicum Castro, founded in the ninth century by Saracen, Astorga and Count of Bierzo, stands...
- La Faba
This town and was first mentioned in 1252 although the name of Villa Villa Urz or Us. It is one of the many villages that we find in these rounded hills covered with vegetation. Their houses were shelled...
- Sahagún
This villa on the shores of Cea is crucial a milestone on the way and the end of the seventh stage of the Codex Calixtinus.
- Bercianos del Real Camino
Beautiful name for a small village that comes to stocking the place with people coming from the Bierzo. He belonged to the monastery of Sahagún by donation in 966 Palla Dona and their children.Moreover,...
- El Burgo Ranero
People around the towing provisions peregrinal, founded or repopulated by a certain ‘Rana-The Way as it passes through Bercianos rius’ according to some theories, or used ‘ranarius’ as a race track near...
- Reliegos
In this village belonging to the City of Santa Marta arrived together three Roman military roads. It is commonly credited with the settlement of the Roman city of Pallantia, called by Ptolemy as ‘Pelontium’....
- Mansilla de las Mulas
This villa with medieval streets and diagonal intersections is situated on the river Esla. It is an important point in the eighth stage to Santiago Calixtinus collected in the Codex. It was provided with...
- Mansilla Mayor
De León Mansilla direction (N-601), just over a mile on the left take the local road that leads to this picturesque village in a municipality that includes the populations of Villaverde Sandoval, Nogales...
- Villaverde de Sandoval
The earliest documentation of this enclave, which is situated at southwest on five kms from Mansilla, on the right bank of the river Esla, and that is referenced as Novali Saltu site, dates back to 1142...
- Nogales
Don't usually appear in the guides of the Camino de Santiago though his term runs the route of the diversion that brought us Villaverde de Sandoval.Moreover, in this village you can find the Church of...
- Arcahueja
For Arcahueja and Valdelafuente bring us out at Alto del Portillo, vantage point allows us to contemplate the river and the village Torío Leon. You can not see in this enclave belonging to the former City...
- Valdelafuente
As part Arcahueja of the City Council Valdefresno. The road that leads us here blends the ancient with the modern industry. Along the way new buildings rise and vessels that recall the immediacy of the...
- Leon
Located at the confluence of the Bernesga and Torío rivers, in a privileged enclave in the northwest of the peninsula and on the Camino de Santiago, stands the regal city of Leon. Discover what was the...
- Trobajo del Camino
The appearance of this core population has changed radically in recent years from being an agricultural and farming enclave to become a service area in which the commercial and industrial sector are the...
- La Virgen del Camino
This core population belongs to the municipality of Valverde de la Virgen and has a population of residents clustered around the Sanctuary of the Virgen del Camino, which has an extensive fame and devotion...
- Fresno del Camino
In this village you can visit the Church of San Andrés (18th century), that boasts an interesting Renaissance altarpiece.
- La Aldea de la Valdoncina
La Aldea de la Valdoncina is a quiet and small town belonging to the municipality of Valverde de la Virgen. It is part of one of an optional section of The Way of Saint James, in the direction of the station...
- Robledo de la Valdoncina
The ancient church of the town was linked to the Order of Santiago and its center of San Marcos de León. The present is a new building but inside there is a seventeenth-century altarpiece recently restored...
- Oncina de la Valdoncina
It is the core of smaller population of those make up the Municipality of Valverde de la Virgen. The trail passes through the main street.Moreover, in this village you can find the Church of San Bartolomé.
- Chozas de Abajo
This small village belongs to the city of Chozas de Abajo. Moreover, in this village you can find the Church of San Martín de Tours.
- Villar de Mazarife
This is a small munícipe of the moor of León. Its parish church, dedicated to Saint James, has a boasting six panel altarpiece. Three of the panels relate tales of the Apostle (two describe the removal...
- Villavante
Today Villavante is characterized as an agricultural people and livestock. Held annually every first Sunday in August, a meeting of Ringers.Moreover, in this village you can find: the Church of Las Candelas...
- Valverde de la Virgen
This is a town-aligned along the national highway 120 and until 1911 was known as Valverde del Camino.Moreover, in this village you can find the Parish Church of Santa Engracia.
- San Miguel del Camino
The municipality is documented in the year 1177 where it is cited that some villagers constitute vassals of the Monastery of San Marcos de León.Moreover, in this village you can find: the Parish Church...
- Villadangos del Páramo
Religious and festive life of this enclave is headed, as in few places in the Way, by the figure of St. James. His avocation is dedicated church and under his patronage is celebrated festivals of the place.
- San Martín del Camino
The town is distinguished by its peculiar remoteness water tank in a ‘lollipop’. On a dirt road the pilgrims come to this nucleus that is cited as early as the thirteenth century in a donation of Alfonso...
- Hospital de Órbigo
It is almost united to Puente de Órbigo, this town is named such as the hospital premises to the care of the pilgrims which once was built by the Knights Hospitaller of St. John. This location is way point...
- Villares de Órbigo
The choice of alternative routes in the road leads to this town if we opt for the northern branch or to the right that runs along roads crossing the fertile plain where cultivated snuff, sugar beet and...
- Santibáñez de Valdeiglesias
Continuing along this branch can be reached here after crossing the access road and irrigation channel, up and down a small hill across a stretch of two kilometers by a paved runway.Moreover, in this village...
- San Justo de la Vega
El Crucero de Santo Toribio, bishop of Astorga, we announced that we are close to this town of Leon. Jovellanos us know that the late eighteenth century there was here a thriving industry producing Franciscan...
- Murias de Rechivaldo
From here you are squarely in the Maragatería, wide area that is based on the Jacobean route with land El Bierzo. The layout of this town is the village-street there are different cruises that mark the...
- Santa Catalina de Somoza
The town comes from Hospital de Yuso whose ruins still recall the place called Orchard Hospital. Here was born Plaza and church of Murias de Rechivaldo Aquilino Shepherd, Mayor of the Maragatería Drummer....
- Foncebadón
From Rabanal to here there is a vast mountainous area of woods and meadows. Foncebadón is almost anuninhabited place. Its founder was The hermit Gaucelmo who erected a hospital of pilgrims between the...
- Manjarín
Abandoned village had left hospital for pilgrims and which has the first historic event in the year 1180. This enclave is now little more than a cemetery. It has a typically Jacobean appearance.
- El Acebo
At the entrance of the village, the transept and the Chapel of San Roque greet travelers can quench their thirst at the fountain known as the Trout.Moreover, in this village you can find: the Parish Church...
- Riego de Ambrós
This enclave is located on a ripple of the ground shows us a place where every step that advances are becoming more visible brown. This core was established at the point where the Camino de Santiago, direction...
- Campo
At present this is a quiet village and cared for with a semimonumental environment around the square. The town is practically attached to the city of Ponferrada.Moreover, in this village you can visit:...
- Ponferrada
Declared a Historic Site in 1976, it lies in the heart of the Bierzo region. Low-lying lands dotted with valleys lead to steep gorges and sheer faces. Site of an Iron Age fortified settlement, its origins...
- Fuentes Nuevas
Continuing along the Camino Real, just four miles we reached New Source Ponferrada, Ponferrada also hamlet. Its industrial estate was once the first of Bierzo and is known as Cantalobos.Moreover, in this...
- Camponaraya
This town from ancient times has been an outstanding reference citing the Camino de Santiago for the first time in the late fifteenth century in the itinerary of Van Harff. Apparently settled after leaving...
- Cacabelos
In this berciana fertile plain we go across the river Cua to access to Cacabelos. It is a villa of Roman descent and it is related to the Castro Ventosa found in ancient literature as Bergidum Flavium...
- Pieros
The gently rolling land covered with vineyards and keynotes are landscapes of this region of Bierzo has thriving wine industry in its rationale. The foundation of this town is directly linked to the construction...
- Villafranca del Bierzo
Situated in the Bierzo region, in the north-west of the province of León.The convergence of two regions in a single spot has created a wealth of natural beauty, bringing together species from wetter areas...
- Pereje
At the exit of Villafranca del Bierzo, following the river Valcarce by the route of the VI National Pereje the first milestone is, people who still retains some of its medieval layout. This small nucleus...
- La Portela de Valcarce
In the narrow valley of ‘Valcarce’ the name of this population can be understand on the way to Santiago. Portela, which means ‘Gap’ in Spanish and by extension ‘narrow passage’ in Galician. His original...
- Ambasmestas
Just a mile from Portela, just at the point where the river Valcárcel Balboa in this county is situated. Indeed, its name refers to this confluence of channels. Is still preserve remnants of the old Roman...
- Ruitelán
Vega Nearby stands the small town of Ruitelán next to the Camino de Santiago on the left bank of the river Valcárcel.Moreover, in this village you can find: the Parish Church of San Juan Bautista and the...
- Las Herrerías
This location corresponds to that Laffi Salvaterra described and very possibly with the Villaus of Aymeric. In 1178 the church of Compostela was here the British hospital.Moreover, in this village you...
- Hospital
The origin of the name of this small village inhabited related to the existence here of a hospital or the British English that is documented in the XII and XIII and Henry II Plantagenet, King of England,...
- La Laguna
The last Leonese village and final of the stage of the way of St. James in Castilla y León. It is the prelude to the top of Cebreiro.Its landscape heritage is its main belt. Nearby it is crowned the ‘Mons...
- Grajal de Campos
This walled Leonese villa is known for the battles fought in its term and for being the birthplace of nobles and knights. There are evidences of the existence of a hospice for travelers to Santiago de...
