Itero de la Vega - Carrión de los Condes

(S) From your campsite, head back towards Hostal Fitero to arrive in front of the hostel.

(1) Turn right to enter the village of Itero de la Vega. Staying on Calle Eusebio Ibañez, continue to the house at No. 19.

(2) Turn left and, at the fork, take the right-hand path onto Calle Santa Ana. Continue straight on (westwards) until you reach the crossroads with a picnic area (water point).

(3) Keep going in the same direction and pass a lorry weighbridge before leaving the village. Continue along a tarmac road through fields until you reach a Stop sign.

(4) Cross carefully and continue in the same direction along a stony track lined with trees and closed to vehicles over 18 tonnes. Carry on until you reach the second crossroads.

(5) Continue in the same direction until you reach the Canal del Pisuerga.

(6) Stay on this path and continue in this direction until you reach a small wooded area at a place called Cerro Otero Largo.

(7) Carry on straight ahead until you cross the Del Berco stream.

(8) Keep heading south-west until you reach a picnic area before the village of Boadilla del Camino.

(9) Cross a small stream before entering the village. Walk along the field on your left and continue until you reach a doctor’s surgery (a small yellow house on the left).

(10) First turn right then left, heading towards the church. In front of the church, you can see a stone column known as the Rollo Jurisdiccional. Go round the church on your right and continue straight on towards the cultivated fields.

(11) Head right and walk along these fields on your left to leave the village at a crossroads in front of some garages.

(12) Head north-west until you reach the last farm.

(13) Turn left (south-west) and continue to the Canal de Castilla.

(14) Turn left and continue along the canal bank. Carry on until you reach the Tourist Office and the superb Fromista Lock (Esclusa cuádruple del Canal de Castilla).

(15) Cross the canal via the small lock, turn right then left to join the P-431.

(16) Stay on this road heading north-west. At the fork, follow the signs for Carrión and continue to the railway bridge.

(17) Continue on and enter the town of Fromista via Avenida Carmen Montes (you can stock up on supplies at a Proxi shop). Carry on until you reach the Stop sign.

(18) Cross Avenida del Ingeniero Rivera with care and continue straight ahead towards the municipal swimming pool. You will reach the sign marking the exit from the town of Fromista, in front of the entrance to the municipal swimming pool.

(19) Continue over a bridge and carry on to the roundabout.

(20) Take the^first exit towards Carrión de los Condes. Go over the A67 motorway and continue to the^second roundabout.

(21) Stay on the same route on a footpath running parallel to the P-980, which crosses vast areas of farmland (caution: long, straight, open stretch: no shelter from the sun). Pass to the right of San Miguel Church and continue to the 70 km/h speed limit sign, located about a hundred metres before the entrance to the town of Poblacion de Campos.

(22) Turn right towards the Pilgrims’ Hostel. In front of the hostel, first turn right then left and continue to the crossroads.

(23) Turn left onto Calle Santiago to join the P-980.

(24) Turn right and continue to the bridge over the River Ucieza.

(25) Turn left to cross the Baroque Bridge over the River and follow the Senda de Peregrinos sign via the footpath. Continue until you reach the path.

(26) Continue north-west along a long, straight stretch with no trees to provide shelter from the sun. Carry on until you come to an irrigation canal.

(27) Keep going in the same direction until you reach the village of Revenga De Campos.

(28) Cross the village, staying on the main road, and continue to San Lorenzo Church.

(29) Continue north-west (rest area in the centre and on the outskirts of the village). Leave the village and continue to the junction with the PP-9801.

(30) Return to the footpath and continue straight on (north-west) towards Carrión de los Condes. Pass the cemetery and walk to the village of Villarmentero de Campos.

(31) Walk through the village, staying on the main road (there isa rest and picnic area under the trees just outside the village). Return to the footpath and continue on to the roundabout in the village of Villalcazar de Sirga.

(32) Walk through this village. On leaving it, you enter the autonomous community of Castile and León. Return to the footpath and continue straight on until you reach the entrance to Carrión de los Condes.

(33) At the entrance to the town, carefully cross the P-980 and then quickly turn left towards the campsite on Avenida de los Peregrinos. Walk to the Stop sign.

(34) Take the street opposite, marked in the middle by a statue of a pilgrim. Continue to the Church of Santa María del Camino.

(35) At the car park, go under the archway on the left to reach Ruelle Cura Carrión. Continue to the end of this alley, then turn left onto Rue Padre Gil. Keep going in this direction until you see the sign pointing towards the campsite.

(36) Turn right onto Calle San Juan and continue in the same direction until you reach the entrance to El Eden campsite (E).

Supplies available in Fromista (15) and Carrión de los Condes (33).
Camp at El Eden campsite. Tel: +34667317891

(9) Boadilla, a 10th-century town, is semi-circular in shape and the route skirts it to the north along an old wall. The austere Gothic Church of Santa Maria (14th and 15th centuries), with its square tower but rich in paintings and sculptures, houses a Romanesque baptismal font. Behind its polygonal apse, a highly ornate column stands in the centre of a square, on a base with narrow steps and topped by a lantern: the rollo gotico (a 15th-century pillory, according to Eusebio Goicoechea).

(17) In Fromista, the route joins and runs alongside the Canal de Castilla. This lengthy structure was built between 1753 and 1849, serving both to irrigate the land and to provide power for factories and mills. At the entrance to the town, you cross the canal via a footbridge, above a spectacular group of oval locks (15), forming a series of waterfalls.

(33) Carrión de los Condes: worth visiting is the 13th-century Convent of Santa Clara (renovated in the 17th century), home to cloistered Poor Clares (accommodation available). The Santa María Gate and a section of wall are remnants of the medieval city walls.