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Variant from Mansilla De Las Mulas to León

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Mardon1

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Hi, has anyone done the variant into León avoiding the road?If so, whats it like? I'm due to walk in o Sat and would rather avoid the traffic . Thanks
 
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Mardon1 said:
Hi, has anyone done the variant into León avoiding the road?
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What variant is that?
I don't remember having to avoid any traffic going into Leon. No nasty roads to cross - if there are, there are now pedestrian bridges.
 
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jsalt said:
What variant is that?
I don't remember having to avoid any traffic going into Leon. No nasty roads to cross - if there are, there are now pedestrian bridges.
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Gronze states there's Variant from Mansilla De Las Mulas that ends in Villamoros de Mansilla. I think it adds 5km on tho. So I don't know if it's worth it. Just wondered if anyone had experience of it.
 
I cannot see this variant, neither on mapy.cz nor on Gronze.com.
Furthermore, I do not remember having heard about it...
 
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Mardon1 said:
Hi, has anyone done the variant into León avoiding the road?If so, whats it like? I'm due to walk in o Sat and would rather avoid the traffic . Thanks
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I walked that a couple weeks ago, I have no information on an alternative but it’s not a great section. Walking part of it in the rain didn’t help. A lot of road walking but it’s away from the busiest roads. A day in the life of a Pilgrim
 
I have never walked to this monastery, though I had hoped to do it back in 2012. The alternative turns a 4.5 km straight shot walk alongside the road into a 10 km trianguluar trip southwest from Mansilla to the monastery and then back north to the official camino. It is a Cistercian monastery, and Gronze raves about it. I can’t find any wikiloc tracks, but it seems to be marked from Mansilla, and the discussion in that 2012 thread would make it pretty easy to find with something as basic as google maps. I woulldn’t take this route to avoid the road, but I would definitely take it to go visit the monastery!

I have a vague memory about an alternative route that avoided León altogether, swinging around it on the south, but I can’t find anything about it using the search function. I think it had to do with avoiding the city of León during covid. But that’s not what the OP is talking about.
 
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Thanks for the link. Maybe when I do the Meseta again I will go to the Monastery. But good to read another article by Anton Pombo. He knows so much and loves the camino so much. I would love to walk with him one day. It would be a whole new experience walking with his passion for the camino.
 
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