Shell motif Camino de Santiago

Camino del Salvador
from León to Oviedo

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Stage 1 - León to Buiza

The Camino starts to the right of San Marcos, following the aptly named Avenida de los Pergrinos. This is the first yellow arrow, some way down the road.
These brown marker posts have been put up recently by a consortium of the local consejos. They are well placed and very useful until you get to the top of the hill beyond Buiza.





A wall marker, also put up by the Cuatro Valles

... and a useful map of where you are going.

The restaurant "El Palacete" just the right distance from León for a first cup of coffee



Good to be on a "camino de tierra" complete with brown marker post















Occasional wooded sections

and some reassuring yellow arrows





Good views over the Benesga valley









An unmarked cross

















































Very large thermoelectric plant on the outskirts of La Robla (La Union Fenosa)

A small wayside chapel, almost surrounded by the factory

Coat of arms over the doorway

Virgin and child behind the altar

Leaving La Robla before dawn











Pereedilla







Ermita de Bun Suceso, just outside Pola de Gordón





Crossing the RÍo Bernesga



|Huge works for the new AVE high-speed train line from León to Oviedo



















First view of La Pola de Gordón



Meson del Antonio at the main crossroads has a good menu del dia. You need to take food with you when you leave Pola de Gordón, since there are few places to get food in the next two days

Leaving La Pola de Gordón







Beberino







First view of Buiza

The refugio at Buiza

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