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Fair of el Camino Olvidado

Guardo, Alto Carrión, Palencia

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Fair of el Camino Olvidado

Activity · Guardo, Alto Carrión, Palencia

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On the third weekend of August Guardo holds a fair dedicated to the Camino Olvidado, a Way of St James route that between the 9th and 13th centuries helped pilgrims avoid the Muslim aceifa raids harassing the southern routes; as the Reconquista advanced it lost pilgrims to the Camino Francés until it fell into oblivion. Today it is signposted and prepared for walking, cycling or riding, through a landscape crossed by hardly any walkers. The Guardo fair, comarca capital of the Alto Carrión, champions this Jacobean mountain route together with the mining memory of a comarca lying at the western edge of Palencia, between the foothills of the Cantabrian mountain range and the Castilian-León plateau.

Photo: Alejandro Polanco (CC BY 3.0)

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