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🇪🇸 Camino de MADRID (Madrid - Sahagún)
My Camino de Madrid - Sahagún. June-July 2016.
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[QUOTE="Castilian, post: 433263"] Yes and no. The story, if I'm not wrong, is more or less as follows: The Camino de Madrid should pass through downtown Valladolid (let's recall Puente Duero is in the municipality of Valladolid). The camino was marked by the Asociación de Amigos de los Caminos de Santiago de Madrid and they decided to bypass downtown Valladolid. If they had marked the camino through downtown Valladolid, they would have needed to put arrows (and/or shells) for more than 8 kms within the city and that's more than the distance they marked within the city of Madrid... That might explain (in part) why they decided to bypass it although that's just a guess so I could be wrong and they could have had other reasons to bypass downtown Valladolid. Later, AJOVA (Asociación Jacobea Vallisoletana) decided to mark with shells and mojones the route from Santiago church in downtown Valladolid to Puente Duero where it joins the Camino de Madrid so pilgrims making the Camino de Madrid could detour to downtown Valladolid (backtracking their steps to Puente Duero once they visited the downtown) and locals could start the camino in downtown Valladolid and follow the signs all the way to Santiago (although -most- locals don't need signs to walk from downtown Valladolid to Puente Duero). They could have marked a full variant through Valladolid that would join with the current route at Ciguñuela or at Wamba but either they didn't think about it or they didn't have enough money for it or they thought that was too much hassle for them. So you can see downtown Valladolid as a dead end of the camino, you can see it a very short starting branch of a camino, you can see it as detour implying backtracking over your steps or you can see it as variant of the route that is just marked till downtown Valladolid and isn't marked from there onwards. In towns with the population of downtown Simacas everyone knows everyone. And there's usually people that also want to know the life of everyone... You didn't get it right. There are still kids in Ciguñuela. In fact, there are still enough kids (under 12 y.o.) as to be teached in Ciguñuela and not be bused to a nearby town so the school in town is still in use. The albergue is located not at the school but at the house that the town council had for the teacher. Nowadays, teachers own (or rent) their own house and those teaching in small towns like Ciguñuela usually/many times don't live in town but commute from a nearby bigger town (or city). [/QUOTE]
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