Accommodation Santo Domingo de Silos

Dani7

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• Apr 7, 2023

• #1

Hello everyone

Planning to go visit the monastery there and hopefully hear the Gregorian chanters at a mass and visit this piece of history. Any suggestions on an albergue to stay overnight. It’s approx 54 km from Burgos so most likely I will take the bus from Burgos and back to get back on the Camino Frances.

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peregrina2000

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• Apr 7, 2023

• #2

The albergue there is connected with the monastery. I don’t know if you are eligible to stay there coming in by bus, but there are lots of private options.

It’s a great walk —check the threads on the Camino San Olav if you’re interested

 

C clearly

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• Apr 7, 2023

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Santo Domingo de Silos is also on the Ruta de la Lana.

 

Margaret Butterworth

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• Apr 7, 2023

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Read my blogpost from October 2017.

 

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• Apr 7, 2023

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In addition to the albergue, there are a number of other places to stay. In 2016, I stayed at Casa de Guzman (on the good advice of @mspath). I was quite happy with it.

 

dick bird

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• Apr 7, 2023

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The albergue is very nice and extremely well-equipped, we stayed there while walking the Lana. You have to go to the back door of the monastery to be let in. The albergue itself is across the road. They won't respond between 1 pm and 4 pm. I am fairly sure that if you explain your motives, they will accept your bona fides, although as Peregrina 2000 will cheerfully point out, there is a fascinating variant off the CF: St Olav's way. Private accommodation is likely to be very expensive BTW, it is now quite a popular tourist destination.

 

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mspath

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• Apr 7, 2023

• #7

Several years ago after I finished the CF early in December my husband drove down to SdC to join me and eventually we visited Santo Domingo de los Silos.

The local tourist bureau has a list of many small hotels and hostals. They also provide a good free map of additional walking paths in the area. If you are into 'ad hoc' camping, ie unorganized camping, follow the path towards the nearby Ermita de la Virgen de la Camino and you will see many inviting nooks for laying down a sleeping bag.

In graduate school 55+ years ago I attended courses by the great medieval art/architecture historian Meyer Schapiro. Several erudite lectures focused on the Spanish caminos. Included were his accounts of Silos manuscripts and architecture which he had visited in 1939 before WW2. Read/see more here

 

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