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On the Camino: One Day at a Time, one Photo at a Time 10.0

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Camino Frances,
between Erro and Zubiri ?

photo taken February 8, 2007



Have you seen this? If so please do tell where. Years ago when using a Canon digital IXUS camera (without GPS ) I scribbled "after Erro"/ "medieval albergue ? " in notes.
Never on any future camino did I pass this spot again.

Thanks in advance for any info.
 
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Not much help from me, @mspath - sorry! I passed ruins of a pilgrim's hostel in the forest not far the Alto de Erro, but it was nothing like the building in your photo, basically just one wall. My OSMand map labels ot as Venta del Puerto and search images are as I remember it.
But I did find this, which looks more like your image.

Here's an interesting tangent, though:

The Early Medieval Hospital - Medievalists.net

The birth and rise of a charitable institution in Europe during the Early Middle Ages.
www.medievalists.net
 
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Josep Montserrat said:
Where is the scalop?

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Forgive the slight detour...
On Thursday, at a funeral, someone who is in early Alzheimer's told me she was surprised to be at the cemetery, as she had never been there before.
I know she was responsible for the purchase of the plot.
Sometimes, what is right in front of our eyes is hidden from view!
I am only surmising that the scallop is the design, just that it is in a rectangular frame.
(Which I find consoling, as my immediate response to my friend was to say: you know, maybe you came here by a different route, and that has confused you a little.)

tee-hee! I see that misunderstood the question!
 
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Saint Jean Pied de Port
49 rue de La Citadelle

photo taken October 14, 2014



This handsome door knocker adorns a private house on the street of pilgrim hope and memory in Saint Jean Pied de Port, the picturesque Basque mountain town in the French Pyrenees.
 
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leaving Navarrete
marker

photo taken October 28, 2015



This marker/tablet depicting two pilgrim basics, a water gourd and staff, is located on the entrance wall of the Navarrete cemetery on the west side of town. The entrance of the cemetery earlier had repurposed/reused the ruins of a medieval pilgrim hostel originally located on the east of the town.
 
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At the entrance of Villafranca del Bierzo, next to the albergue Ave Fénix which - luckily - is not the building in the picture.
Both times I came through town I stayed at Albergue Leo and found it a very welcoming and friendly place.
CF, May 2019

 
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September 14, 2012 Camino Frances. Casa Felisa, just before Logrono.
"Antes Felisa ahora Maria. Pan, higos y amor" Before Felisa now Maria. Bread, figs and love.

Maria stamps my credential. She was making coffee and toast for pilgrims in her kitchen. I was happy to meet her and spend a bit of time there. May both she and Felisa rest in peace.

 
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Iglesia de Santa María de Eunate

photo taken October 22, 2014



This distinctive mark was left by a stonemason when constructing the Iglesia.

For a description of the working methods of architectural craftsmen in medieval Spain see the subsection entitled Artists and Professionals, Stonemasons, anonymity and artists' signatures in this Wikipedia article.

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Iglesia de Santiago

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The path leading to Casa a Picohna, (where we were booked to stay), just before Dumbria. We found the signpost a wee bit confusing! Rather than pointing directly down the grassy path it was pointing in a similar direction to the Camino arrow to the right, so initially we went to the right until we got to the Albergue in Dumbria and realised we should have turned left at the corner! Eventually we found the Casa! We had a very enjoyable stay and retraced our steps the next morning. 28th, June, 2022.
 
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VNwalking said:
8 years ago today, a day on the Francés that I can never remember much about after the fact.
Except a wonderful cafe some kms in.
And just walking.
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VNwalking,
Great trees in this view! Roughly 2 days west of Portemarin? Might this be en route towards Melide and the "wonderful cafe" in El Coto?
 
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Between Orisson and Col Lepoeder, May 2012
Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica)



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Villamayor de Monjardin

photo taken October 25, 2014



Asked about lunch possibilities the friendly hospitalero in the then new Villamayor de Monjardin private albergue offered me this splendid tomato from his father's garden.
...All these years later I remember the delicious taste and his kindness.
 
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O Cebreiro
Santa Maria a Real
tomb of Don Elias Valiña Sampedro

photo taken November 28, 2014



Within the church I paused at the tomb of Don Elias Valiña Sampedro the local priest well known for much historic camino research and for painting the first yellow arrows which pilgrims so diligently follow.

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Uterga
pedestrian portrait

photo taken October 22, 2012



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Arriving at the Uterga albergue I took this photo for permanent proof of all that mud!
 
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Today five years ago.

Brand new mojón. Almost in Santiago.

 
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O Cebreiro

photos taken March 11, 2009
and November 23, 2011

Some uses of iconic symbols can be jarring.



This magnificent silver chalice was a gift from royalty commemorating a medieval miracle of faith when a parishioner experienced the transformation of wine and bread.



In more recent time the stylized shape of the chalice became the symbol of Galicia and thus now appears throughout the province even on garbage containers!
 
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