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This is a 1.5 km walk from Grañon itself, either directly or across the fields. It´s a quiet spot, and the Ermita itself has a lovely atmosphere.The Ermita de Carrasquedo mentioned above by Kathar1na is also a youth hostel with dorm facilities and inexpensive good meals. No need for any special hostel card to stay there, your pilgrim Crendencial does the trick.
Oh, Kather1na! You come up with the goods once again! What a detective you would make! I'd like to stick that in the pipe of the Tourist Office of Santo Domingo and suggest that they smoke it. However, it indicates that I was wrong in my assumption that Mario's wooden cross was still there in 2014. I thought that the 2014 articles (Kathar1na's post #7) would have mentioned that the celebrations were not at Mario's cross, although one of them states: "La reforma de la carretera N-120 hizo desaparecer aquella entrañable cruz," He had died the week before, but had been honoured at the celebrations the year before. But, if the metal cross was erected in 2001, how did it come about that the pilgrim found a blank space, presumably where the wooden cross had stood, in 2005? Could he not see the metal cross? Perhaps he was walking an earlier path of the Camino which went past the place where the wooden cross had stood. But if the new N-120 had required the removal of the wooden cross in 2001, I would not expect its former location to be still there in 2005.The Cultural Association of the Friends of the Ermita de Carrasquedo in Grañon write in the timeline on their website that this happened in 2001 which is the 13th year of their existence:
Year 13. 2001. Juancho premieres the song "La Cruz de los Valientes". The space is remodelled with a metal cross.It took me a while to understand it but it seems to me that Grañon and Santo Domingo organise a yearly event at the cross to celebrate and honour their current "valientes".
Sumo in Spain: "de forma que aquel que consiguiera expulsar al otro fuera del perímetro sería el vencedor"
I'm sure some farmers drink on the job, but the wild paths are probably from driving across the field later with no concern for the damage to half a percent of the crop.I didn't notice the fields must have been ploughed by a drunk farmer either, until I looked again at this photo just now..
I got “403 Forbidden” on the second of those two links.
So did I, today. But it worked when I posted it.I got “403 Forbidden” on the second of those two links.
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