Carrión de los Condes → Terradillos de los Templarios
26 km | 5-8 hours | +145m / -93m
About This Stage
This stage contains the longest stretch without services on the Frances: 17 kilometres from Carrion de los Condes to Calzadilla de la Cueza with nothing in between. The walking crosses the most austere section of the Meseta, flat and featureless in every direction.
The route follows a Roman road alignment across the plateau, dead straight for kilometres at a stretch. The isolation and emptiness can be either deeply meditative or profoundly challenging depending on your mindset. After Calzadilla, a few more small villages appear before Terradillos.
Terradillos de los Templarios is a tiny hamlet named for its historical Templar connection. A couple of albergues and a bar provide basic services. The village sits in the middle of the Meseta with nothing but wheat fields in every direction.
Terrain: Flat exposed Meseta tracks, long service-free stretches, dry agricultural paths
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Things Along the Way
Carrión de los Condes, named for the Counts of Carrión from the Cantar de Mio Cid, was once a major Camino hub with 14 pilgrim hospitals. Today it has multiple albergues, hotels, restaurants, cafés, supermarkets, a pharmacy, ATMs, and a bus stop.
Calzadilla de la Cueza is a tiny single-street village in Palencia at the end of the long 17km Roman-road stretch out of Carrion. Albergues, a hotel, a bar-restaurant, and a small shop. No pharmacy or ATM. Important relief stop.
Ledigos is a small farming village in Palencia between Calzadilla de la Cueza and Terradillos de los Templarios. Albergues and a bar-restaurant. No shop, pharmacy or ATM. A short, simple meseta stop.
Terradillos de los Templarios was a 12th-century Knights Templar commandery and marks roughly the halfway point of the Camino Frances. Has albergues with attached restaurants. No shop, pharmacy or ATM. Quiet farming village on the meseta.
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