Shell motif Camino de Santiago

Camino Francés
from St Jean-Pied-du-Port
to Santiago de Compostela

 Shell motif
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Stage 24 - From Ponferrada to Villafranca del Bierzo

Ponferrada: the tree-lined exit from the city

Fountain with monument to the pimento farmers

Waymark

The famous slag-heaps outside the city

Compostilla: waymark

Compostilla: waymark

The Camino goes under the building here

Compostilla: pavement waymark

Church with pilgrim monument

The country at last

Entering Columbrianos

Chapel in the centre of the village

Pumpkins and sweet corn

Flowers

Flowers

More pumpkins

Flowers

The very friendly bar in Fuente Nuevas

Main street in Fuentes Nuevas

Reflections in the solar glass factory (the bodega opposite gave me a free glass of their excellent wine

The pilgrim bridge over the motorway - looking back

Looking forward to the hills of Galicia

First view of Casabelos

Flowers

Hermitage in Casabelos

Casabelos refugio; cabins for 2 built around an old church

Swimming in the river

Interior of a cabin in the refugio: dawn

Leaving the road after km. 406

A sculptor's workshop in the middle of nowhere

Distant view of Villafranca and the mountain of Galicia

Dilapidated house showing method of construction

Villafranca and church from the steps of the refugio

Entering Villafranca del Bierzo

Alexander and Muriel from Holland in the main square

Torquemada's house

Doorway

The pilgrim statue with two pilgrims

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