STAGE 3.A CAMINO OLVIDADO: Boñar - La Robla

Alto Porma

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Aventura

Trekking

Información general

Dificultad

Difficult

Duración

1 day

Recorrido

One way

Distancia

33.60 km

Signaling

Yes

Elevation difference

439.00 m

Desnivel de bajada

455.00 m

*En condiciones climatológicas normales

Departing from Boñar, the Camino takes us across the Old Bridge, or Puente Viejo, located near the pilgrims’ hospital. This stage has two versions, and in this case, the route goes to La Robla, levelling out across the floodplains of some of León’s most famous trout-fishing rivers: the Porma, Curueño, Torío and, at the end of the day, in La Robla, the Bernesga.

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The route offers spectacular landscape, old roads, some towers and castles and remote villages with beautiful bell towers and manor houses. Here and there, we find evidence of mining activity, as it snakes through one of the regions that, from the late 19th century, supplied coal to the incipient Basque steel industry.

In La Robla, the Camino Olvidado merges with the Camino de San Salvador, a busy medieval route between León and Oviedo travelled by pilgrims to venerate the precious relics of the Holy Chamber in the Cathedral of Oviedo before continuing on to Compostela.