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On the Camino: One Day at a Time, one Photo at a Time 11.0

Camino Frances
Atapuerca
sculpture

photo taken November 7, 2013



This contemporary sculpture symbolically represents a Neanderthal who nearly one million years ago inhabited the Sierra de Atapuerca.
 
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Camino Aragonés. August 30, 2023

Someone ahead of me either didn't notice, or didn't honour the request
Ice cold potable water (assured by a local woman passing by) from this lovely fuente next to the Iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora in Canfrac Pueblo.

 
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Let us pick up your suitcase once you arrive in Europe....
...and ship it to Santiago for storage. You pick it up once in Santiago. Service offered by Casa Ivar (we use DHL for transportation).
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Camino Frances
Burgos
Cathedral de Santa Maria
west facade

photo taken November 8, 2013



Anyone wishing to worship/meditate may freely enter Burgos cathedral through the sw door beneath the pointed arch furthest to the right in this view. Within the vast complex free access is limited; a fee is charged to visit the cathedral/museum.
 
Camino Way markers in Bronze
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Camino Frances
Burgos
Cathedral de Santa Maria

photo taken October 20, 2004



Within the cathedral museum is this mid 15th c. reliquary. Roughly 30cm. high, clad in vermeil/ gold plate on silver, Saint James wears a pilgrim hat complete with shell atop his precise curls. Sainthood is depicted by the flat halo behind his head. He grips his pilgrim staff and from one shoulder hangs a tiny traveling bag known as a scrip.
...I still fondly recall seeing this exquisite sculpture for the first time in 2004.
 
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Camino Frances
Burgos
Cathedral de Santa Maria
interior detail

photo taken November 8, 2012



This small memento mori features a child/putto holding a skull. The themes of this infantile combo are not playfulness and childhood but life's fleetingness and the universality of death.
 
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Camino Frances
Burgos
Plaza de la Libertad
Casa del Cordón

photo taken February 4, 2008



Heavy ropes/cords carved in stone which surround the main door give this 15th c. palace, presently used as a bank/exhibition space, its name. The charming French speaking hospitalera viewed here guided our rest day visit.
 
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Camino Jewellery
A selection of Camino Jewellery
Camino Way markers in Bronze
The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.
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