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This Ancient City Should Be Your First Stop in Spain Post-Pandemic
While other destinations have been hibernating through the pandemic, this medieval jewel west of Madrid has been quietly glowing up.
Read in The Daily Beast: https://apple.news/AuvHw6DIbSI6zhl23gx8gbg
unable to use this link a popup comes up and wants you joinThis Ancient City Should Be Your First Stop in Spain Post-Pandemic
While other destinations have been hibernating through the pandemic, this medieval jewel west of Madrid has been quietly glowing up.
Read in The Daily Beast: https://apple.news/AuvHw6DIbSI6zhl23gx8gbg
stayed there for two days and a very nice city.Unfortunately behind a paywall but I can iamgine the raving words about this wonderful town.
Far away from everything to keep it being overcrowded with tourists.
Unfortunately behind a paywall
Muchísimas gracias !This Ancient City Should Be Your First Stop in Spain Post-Pandemic
While other destinations have been hibernating through the pandemic, this medieval jewel west of Madrid has been quietly glowing up.
Read in The Daily Beast: https://apple.news/AuvHw6DIbSI6zhl23gx8gbg
To be honest, I don't think this is a very on-point article for this forum.
That is what we did. By stopping a night in Valdesalor we were able to arrive in Caceres early and had the best part of a day to sightsee. It is indeed a wonderful city.I was able to read the whole article. I will hopefully be walking the VDLP in October. Was going to take a rest day in Merida. What to do about this town. What a dilemma! Probably walk to Valdesalor. Sleep there get up early and take the short 12k to the city. Then decide.
What I would give to be in Sevilla now in front of the Cathedral at about 7:00AM and about to take my first step north to Santiago.That is what we did. By stopping a night in Valdesalor we were able to arrive in Caceres early and had the best part of a day to sightsee. It is indeed a wonderful city.
When I clicked on the original link I was taken directly to the Daily Beast story. I was just about to post the link but you have already done it. Let me count the ways peregrina2000 is again such a help and pleasure to have as a forum friend. Happy New Year.Try this:
This Ancient City Should Be Your First Stop in Spain Post-Pandemic
While other destinations have been hibernating through the pandemic, this medieval jewel west of Madrid has been quietly glowing up.www.thedailybeast.com
And I can’t think of @Sabiine and Cáceres without remembering her terrific restaurant recommendation — unlike virtually every other restaurant in every other plaza mayor in Spain, this one is FABULOUS. http://www.laminervacaceres.com/
I have a particular soft spot in my heart for Cáceres. On my first Vdlp, in 2009, I had to stop here because of what turned out to be tarsal tunnel (the foot equivalent of carpal tunnel). I thought I would stay for a few days of rest to see if things got better. They didn’t and I called it quits. But those days there were really nice. For one thing, and this was in the day of internet cafés and before the prevalence of smart phones, there was a mobile internet unit sitting right in the Plaza Mayor trying to encourage townsfolk to sign up and get connected. No one was using it, so I became good buddies with the three or so young techies who let me use one of the terminals every day for as long as I wanted.
Even if you have to hobble, Cáceres is a gorgeous city — its Renaissance core rivals what you’ll see in Tuscany. Though its casco histórico is relatively uninhabited these days, many of the buildings are now used by government agencies, so it is still a real place with more than just tourists.
HahCome on, @Raggy, you don’t think pilgrims will be rushing to reserve a room in the new hotel Casa Palacio Paredes Saavedra?
“The accommodations are going to be enormous. One of the suites has a 215-square-foot bathroom—that, to me, is true luxury.” Evidently Tuñón Arquitectos has had a busy year. In addition to the Helga Alvear, they’re undertaking the gut renovation and redesign of this 16th-century mansion. When it’s finished, guests paying upwards of €800 a night will be able to enjoy amenities like his-and-hers showers, heated floors, butler service, and deep-sink tubs cut from single slabs of Italian marble. There are plans to turn the original subterranean cistern into a candlelit sauna and hammam.
Don’t you think every pilgrim deserves to soak in a deep-sink tub cut from a single slab of Italian marble at least once on a camino?!
Thank you for this article! We were in Caceres in 2016. spent 2 nights - rained most of the time! Our accommodations were not of the type mentioned in the article - lol. We did have reservations for a very nice dinner - but it was pouring so hard we bought snacks and dined in our room! Ahh, the memories this brought back of a fantastic 3-month trip throughout the country -- which is why we returned to walk the Camino.This Ancient City Should Be Your First Stop in Spain Post-Pandemic
While other destinations have been hibernating through the pandemic, this medieval jewel west of Madrid has been quietly glowing up.
Read in The Daily Beast: https://apple.news/AuvHw6DIbSI6zhl23gx8gbg
I was able to read the whole article. I will hopefully be walking the VDLP in October. Was going to take a rest day in Merida. What to do about this town. What a dilemma! Probably walk to Valdesalor. Sleep there get up early and take the short 12k to the city. Then decide.
When walking the VDLP we had a rest day in Merida which was a great choice. But we did a short 12km day into and 12kms out of Caceres so we could have a good look around.I was able to read the whole article. I will hopefully be walking the VDLP in October. Was going to take a rest day in Merida. What to do about this town. What a dilemma! Probably walk to Valdesalor. Sleep there get up early and take the short 12k to the city. Then decide.
Definitely Tinka never hurts looking for that Pilgrim discount. You are someone who knows all things Camino. Is it an urban legend that at one time there were a few pilgrim discounts at the Parador in Santiago?I remember someone telling me that in 2012 or so. I know it is not the lunch. I have gotten a ticket twice for the lunch at the Parador. Two pilgrimages ago I was invited by a Pilgrim I had met just 2 days earlier to eat with him and 8 others in the main dining room at the Parador. he spared no expense. I had our wonderful waiter order for me and my meal was amazing. If that isn't a pilgrim angel I don't know what the definition of an angel is!!!And as every Pilgrim 'no it are worth flashing your credentials and asking for a discount
You are the second person who recommended I go this route. It looks like as soon as I get there that is what I will do! Thanks and Happy New Year.When walking the VDLP we had a rest day in Merida which was a great choice. But we did a short 12km day into and 12kms out of Caceres so we could have a good look around.
Definitely Tinka never hurts looking for that Pilgrim discount. You are someone who knows all things Camino. Is it an urban legend that at one time there were a few pilgrim discounts at the Parador in Santiago?I remember someone telling me that in 2012 or so. I know it is not the lunch. I have gotten a ticket twice for the lunch at the Parador. Two pilgrimages ago I was invited by a Pilgrim I had met just 2 days earlier to eat with him and 8 others in the main dining room at the Parador. he spared no expense. I had our wonderful waiter order for me and my meal was amazing. If that isn't a pilgrim angel I don't know what the definition of an angel is!!!
That sounds great but when I walk even when I get to Santiago I keep things really simple. In Santiago I try to stay in one of the Pilgrim rooms at San Martin Pinario. ThanksI'm pretty sure that you can still get a room discount at the Parador in Santiago. I'm not sure if they have discounted meals too. When I stayed at the Parador in Vilalba on the Norte in 2018 they offered a pilgrim's rate for the room, and a pilgrim menu in the restaurant.
You can also join the Parador Amigos program for discounts.
that is a good plan It56ny. Both cities are worth the effort to spend some time in, you won't regret.I was able to read the whole article. I will hopefully be walking the VDLP in October. Was going to take a rest day in Merida. What to do about this town. What a dilemma! Probably walk to Valdesalor. Sleep there get up early and take the short 12k to the city. Then decide.
San Martín Pinario is the best!That sounds great but when I walk even when I get to Santiago I keep things really simple. In Santiago I try to stay in one of the Pilgrim rooms at San Martin Pinario. Thanks
You got that right and the breakfast they throw in the deal is pretty cool!San Martín Pinario is the best!
If I were in front of the cathedral in Sevilla right now I’d be taking my first steps to the Bodega Santa Cruz, Las Tres Columnas.What I would give to be in Sevilla now in front of the Cathedral at about 7:00AM and about to take my first step north to Santiago.
I checked this restaurant out. I will be spending 2 days in Sevilla before I go and I will definitely go buy for a few tapas maybe a few more!If I were in front of the cathedral in Sevilla right now I’d be taking my first steps to the Bodega Santa Cruz, Las Tres Columnas.
I was sick in Mérida, in fact I fainted in the lobby of the Parador hotel, but everyone else said it was wonderful. I was OK by the time we got to Cáceres, which is also a lovely city. Why not take a rest day in both? The photo is of Cáceres in 2012.I was able to read the whole article. I will hopefully be walking the VDLP in October. Was going to take a rest day in Merida. What to do about this town. What a dilemma! Probably walk to Valdesalor. Sleep there get up early and take the short 12k to the city. Then decide.
I have done this at a few swishy places on off-piste Caminos and have had a few astonishing discounts (one place, which I will not name for fear that pilgrim buses may swarm them, gave me a 120e suite for 54e, and threw in a fruitbasket and a bottle of cava).And as every Pilgrim 'no it are worth flashing your credentials and asking for a discount
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