Visiting Santo Domingo de Silos from Burgos

Gadflyparexcellence

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• Friday at 8:44 PM

• #1

I'm planning to visit Santo Domingo de Silos as a day trip (either in the morning or in the afternoon) from Burgos on September 19. Anyone interested in cost sharing for a taxi ride to the monastery and back?

 

peterott

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• Friday at 9:31 PM

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If you want to make a quick hike after the monastery visit, a bit outside of town is the "Desfiladero de La Yecla", a pretty nice small trip through an extremely narrow gorge.
I am pretty sure that there is a roundtrip from Santo Domingo de Silos through the gorge as I've seen lots of hiking signs, but I was there with a rental car.

Also the ruins of the Monasterio de San Pedro de Arlanza were great and the "museum" was showing some Clint Eastwoods pics of a movie that had some scenes filmed inside of the ruins. And of course Cemeterio Sad Hill... enough to visit on a 0km day

 

dick bird

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• Friday at 10:38 PM

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There may be day trips by coach, it’s a popular place. Ask the tourist office in Burgos.

 

oursonpolaire

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• Saturday at 2:18 AM

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There is a bus (Autocarres Arceredillo) which leaves Burgos at 17.30 and which returns at 8.10 in the morning, Saturdays and Sundays excepted. The Turismo in Burgos will likely know of any other options (I have found them very helpful in the past).

 

Gadflyparexcellence

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• Saturday at 3:10 AM

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oursonpolaire said:

There is a bus (Autocarres Arceredillo) which leaves Burgos at 17.30 and which returns at 8.10 in the morning, Saturdays and Sundays excepted. The Turismo in Burgos will likely know of any other options (I have found them very helpful in the past).

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Thanks for the info. I was not planning to stay overnight though. I'll check w/ Turismo in Burgos.

 

Steven Dwyer

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• Sunday at 4:53 AM

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oursonpolaire said:

There is a bus (Autocarres Arceredillo) which leaves Burgos at 17.30 and which returns at 8.10

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Thanks for sharing this. I had given up on finding the bus info. The link is here with a fun route map.

Inicio - Autocares Arceredillo, alquiler de autobuses en Burgos

autocaresarceredillo.es

I was fortunate to spend three days there in 2000 to recover from tendinitis. Hoping to do a three day retreat this year.

 

Stephan the Painter

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• Sunday at 1:42 PM

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Gadflyparexcellence said:

I'm planning to visit Santo Domingo de Silos as a day trip (either in the morning or in the afternoon) from Burgos on September 19. Anyone interested in cost sharing for a taxi ride to the monastery and back?

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Just another thought, sometimes it's surprisingly cheap to rent a car in Spain. the booking. com app seems to give me the best prices.

Technically, you'll need an international driver's license, but they'll rent you a car without it.

You will get a €200 ticket if you happen to get pulled over. But I rented cars in Spain on many occasions for months and never got pulled over.