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The columns are about 2.5 Kms before Sahagun. They are close to the Ermita de la Virgen del Puente. If you go onto Google Earth they are visible close by and the ermita is labelled.
https://en.mapy.cz/turisticka?source=osm&id=1081228592&ds=1&x=-5.0050617&y=42.3667306&z=16
It is marked on this page as "monument - memorial": 2,9 km from the center of Sahagún.
Ah! But in in Sahagun proper, between the Arco de San Benito and the Rio Cea bridge, there is another monument appearing to compete for the half-way honors! I attach a photo of handsome me posing beside it last October..
I’ve had to adjust my Camino (life happens) and will be starting in Sahagun. I’d like to start with a picure of myself between the two columns besides the trail. In the hope that if I ever come back and start in SJPD I can finish at the same...
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I book an appointment with the podiatrist specifically just to remove calluses. I have had blisters underneath calluses before, which were really painful and difficult to treat. For this I recommend a podiatrist, rather than one of the...
Go stay in Casa Susi in Trabadelo and you'll hear a very romantic story of how Susi and Fermin met on the Camino, (Susi owned the Albergue, Fermin was walking it as a pilgrim). The story goes he stayed there one night then on the next day he...
I ordered the xero-x trail sandals and was worried they wouldn’t last for a walk around town. And they were too expensive for shower shoes, so they went back.
Summer 1989. I was the guide in Iona Abbey for a few weeks. The job also involved setting up for services. Someone asked for the church to be filled with incense before the service - so the scent would be lingering in the air as people arrived...
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