OUR REGION

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OUR REGION
Spain
Europe
Palencia

• Castilla y León

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THE LANDSCAPE
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The mountain
-In the north of the province. -Climate cold and
high rainfall -Flora forests and shrubs -Fauna
wolves, bears, grouse, owls ...
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NORTH AREA
-Long cold winters with frequent frosts and heavy
rains. -Very short summer, dry season, cool
temperatures. -Wildlife like mountain with cereal
crops and irrigation.
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LANDS OF FIELDS
-Fauna great bustard, partridge, quail, rabbit,
hare, wild boar. -Flora rainfed crops such as
wheat, barley ... -Climate Winters, long cold
and abundant rainfall, dry and very hot summers.
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THE CERRATO
-Fauna hare, rabbit, otter, great
bustard... -Flora Mediterranean forest, dry
farming and irrigation. -Climate cold winters
and dry summers with high temperatures
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ROMANESQUE and GOTHIC ART
Main front of Santiago Church. Carrión de los
Condes.
Saint Martin. Frómista.
Organ inside the church in Tamara de Campos.
Church in Villalcázar de Sirga
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Saint Martin, Frómista.
Its in Frómista, and it is de most important
Romanesque church of the province. Located on
ST.James way, it was built in the second half
of the eleventh century by order of Mrs. Mayor
of Castilla, as part of a monastery of San
Martín, now disappeared.
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Main front of Santiago Church. Carrión de los
Condes.
Anonymous twelfth century Pantocrator surrounded
by tetramorfos in the main front of Santiago
church in Carrión de los Condes.
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Villalcázar de Sirgas church
Its a temple-fortress started building in the
late twelfth century, in the transition from
Romanesque to Gothic, and completed in the
fourteenth century. Milestone of the Way of St.
James, which has been one of their most important
religious centers, and linked to the Knights
Templar, is of great artistic interest, the most
prominent being the sculpture of the cover, proto
XIII century, the collection of polychrome tombs
inside, Gothic thirteenth and fourteenth
centuries, and the altarpiece, Gothic fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries.
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Organ inside the church in Tamara de Campos.
It is an organ located in the church of Tamara
Field, built in 1785 and supported by a wooden
column that mimics marble.
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ST.JAMES WAY
The scallop shell is the symbol of the pilgrims.
Pilgrims on their way to Santiago.
Map of St.James Way across the province of
Palencia.
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ST.JAMES WAYS ROUTES
-There are many routes to Santiago, the most
important starts at Roncesvalles. -Other routes
start in Frenchs cities like Paris, Vézelay, Le
Puy, Arles and Narbonne.
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SPAIN ROUTES
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FRENCH WAY
PILGRIMS CARD
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Compostela Diploma certifying that you have made
the ST.James Way. It is written in Galician.
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LOCAL PRODUCTS, RURAL ECONOMY.
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OUR VILLAGES
Carrión de los Condes (2.220)
Osorno (1460)
Boadilla del Camino (120)
Villalcázar de Sirga (180)
Frómista (830)
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TRADITIONS
Religious procession
Traditional costume
Corpus Christi festivity in Carrion de los Condes
The Olé local festivity in Frómista