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LIVE on the CF warning - Belorado/Tostanos/Villafranca highway work

MARSKA

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Sept/Oct 2023
Hi All - I intended post this earlier but just now getting to it - there is major highway construction work going on through this area so plan accordingly.
I also want to inform people that the donativo in Tosantos is now smack next to the highway and trucks roll by there almost constantly.
 
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Albergue parroquial San Francisco de Asís in Tosantos has always been next to the highway. No-ones moved it.

As I recall most of that stretch is off the N-120 but within earshot. There is a nasty bit of Pilgrim / Great Big Lorry interaction just before Villafranca where you have to share the bridge across the river with things much bigger than the average pilg but the truck-stop cafe/bar just after is a great place to calm your jitters.
 
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I took the bus from Grañon to Burgos in May this summer, and I noted some earthworks going on beside the N120 in that area. I wondered if it was a large new warehouse foundation or maybe a large agricultural building.

In Sept, I was on the bus back to Grañon and I was amazed by all the earthworks I could see going on. And it was even more obvious when I started walking. There's a big dual carriageway being built rapidly in the area between Grañon and Villafranca which is going to significantly change the feel of that stretch.
 
If a new highway takes most of the traffic off the current N-120 that can only but benefit pilgrims on that stretch. For those of us who can, remember what the motorway did for the route on from Villafranca to Las Herrias. Okay, not the prettiest bit of modern architecture to be encountered in Spain but I would rather have those trucks 100m above my head than 1m from my elbow
 
I was surprised as to how busy the N120 was. In 2014, I seemed to remember that it was busiest mid morning but then in the afternoon it went quiet as drivers stopped for lunch.
This year, loads of trucks were already thundering past at 6.30am when I left Villarta, and they were still thundering past mid afternoon through Villafranca. That motorway is needed, even if it does change the landscape a lot.
 
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I've often wondered how the landscape looks like from up there.
 
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