Route of the Cid Land of Burgos
A stroll around the streets of Vivar del Cid takes us back to the days of the legendary hero The Cid. This route provides visitors with a fascinating insight into time he spent in exile. Traces of this heroic figure can be found in several towns, as well as the city of Burgos where he lived for some time and which formed a magnificent backdrop against which his legend was forged.
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- Vivar del Cid
He had seen this city created in the year 1043 and this is where the text is kept that made him a legend: the manuscript of the Poem of Mio Cid. To go through the streets of Vivar del Cid nowadays is to...
- Burgos
The city of Burgos is one of the main backgrounds where the legend of el Cid took place and the route that relives the exile of the Campeador. Burgos was the town where the exile of Don Rodrigo Díaz de...
- San Pedro de Cardeña
Before leaving the territory of Burgos, el Cid went to the Monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña to say goodbye to his daughter and his wife. Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar entrusted the abbot, don Sancho, to look...
- Covarrubias
The route of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar’s exile with his armed retinue reached Covarrubias. It retains its atmosphere of the times, throughout the whole medieval city’s interwoven narrow streets, with its houses...
- Santo Domingo de Silos
El Cid Campeador galloped nearby Santo Domingo de Silos in the direction of ‘Spinaz del Can’, maybe referred to the zone of Pinarejos.
- Pinarejos / Huerta de Rey
The minstrel sings that one hundred Castilian men had arrived in San Pedro de Cardeña to join el Cid who, on his pilgrimage, spent the night in ‘Spinaz del Can’. The exact spot is unknown, however everything...
