- Time of past OR future Camino
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Lescun is a beautiful little village on a plateau (at about 900m?) surrounded by high mountains in the Western Pyrenees. It is only a couple of kilometres east and above the valley of the Aspe, where the Camino Aragones winds its way along the valley floor from Bedous up to the Col de Somport.
But west of Lescun, climbing another 1000m is the border with Spain. In October I found this faded marker for the Camino de Santiago at a crossing called Puerto del Palo.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/peregrino_tom/29876579011/in/album-72157674355621176/lightbox/
Of the routes indicated on the wooden signs next to it, I only know the GR11 - and obviously that could take you to Roncesvalles, which it passess on its way to the Atlantic (and indeed Irun). There's also something written on the marker which is now mostly faded away, so it's unclear what this might be.
I just wondered if anyone knew anything about this and whether it was a known or historical variant from the Aragones - or something entirely different?
Cheers, tom
minor edit because I don't know my east from my west!
But west of Lescun, climbing another 1000m is the border with Spain. In October I found this faded marker for the Camino de Santiago at a crossing called Puerto del Palo.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/peregrino_tom/29876579011/in/album-72157674355621176/lightbox/
Of the routes indicated on the wooden signs next to it, I only know the GR11 - and obviously that could take you to Roncesvalles, which it passess on its way to the Atlantic (and indeed Irun). There's also something written on the marker which is now mostly faded away, so it's unclear what this might be.
I just wondered if anyone knew anything about this and whether it was a known or historical variant from the Aragones - or something entirely different?
Cheers, tom
minor edit because I don't know my east from my west!
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