- Time of past OR future Camino
- Various 2014-19
Via Monastica 2022
Primitivo 2024
I don't know about you but big bones turn me into a wide-eyed little kid.
And it turns out we've been walking on them. Lots of them. On the Norte, on the San Olav, the Ebro, maybe even on the Frances.
While I was looking for information about the history of Salas de los Infantes, I stumbled onto this website, which shows the dino sites near the town and in the Lara Valley. One of the outcrops is directly on the San Olav, and the others are not far away. They are worth a look if you are thinking of walking the San Olav, or taking a side trip from the Frances to Santo Domingo de Silos. It's fabulous country, some of the Best. Walking. Ever.
The outcrop right on the San Olav is pretty special. But now I see I missed a museum, the 'motherlode' of Spanish dinosaur-dom, and the type locality of Demandasaurus (named from the nearby Sierra de la Demanda mountains).
So close and yet so far. The history of Salas de los Infantes is wild too. And then there is all the Romanesque.
It's quite a place.
And there are a few other interesting web sites that I found after looking at the one linked to above:
https://blog.everythingdinosaur.co....ur-footprints-from-burgos-province-spain.html
http://www.fundaciondinosaurioscyl.com/en/c/?iddoc=1967&idsec=12
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/lori-needleman/dinosaurs-northern-spain_b_2988613.html
The beach deposits on the Norte are rife with footprints: "Scattered along the beaches from Gijón to Ribadesella are fossilized dinosaur footprints from 150 million years ago."
So keep your eyes peeled Norte pilgrims!
And it turns out we've been walking on them. Lots of them. On the Norte, on the San Olav, the Ebro, maybe even on the Frances.
While I was looking for information about the history of Salas de los Infantes, I stumbled onto this website, which shows the dino sites near the town and in the Lara Valley. One of the outcrops is directly on the San Olav, and the others are not far away. They are worth a look if you are thinking of walking the San Olav, or taking a side trip from the Frances to Santo Domingo de Silos. It's fabulous country, some of the Best. Walking. Ever.
The outcrop right on the San Olav is pretty special. But now I see I missed a museum, the 'motherlode' of Spanish dinosaur-dom, and the type locality of Demandasaurus (named from the nearby Sierra de la Demanda mountains).
So close and yet so far. The history of Salas de los Infantes is wild too. And then there is all the Romanesque.
It's quite a place.
And there are a few other interesting web sites that I found after looking at the one linked to above:
https://blog.everythingdinosaur.co....ur-footprints-from-burgos-province-spain.html
http://www.fundaciondinosaurioscyl.com/en/c/?iddoc=1967&idsec=12
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/lori-needleman/dinosaurs-northern-spain_b_2988613.html
The beach deposits on the Norte are rife with footprints: "Scattered along the beaches from Gijón to Ribadesella are fossilized dinosaur footprints from 150 million years ago."
So keep your eyes peeled Norte pilgrims!
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