Village

Fuente de Cantos

588m

38.2461°N, 6.3074°W

Coordinates

38.2461°N, 6.3074°W

Elevation

588m

Accommodation

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Services Available

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Restaurant

Cafe

Grocery

Pharmacy

ATM

Train

Post Office

Airport

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Pilgrim Office

Clinic

Water

Tobacconist

About Fuente de Cantos

Fuente de Cantos is an Extremaduran town and the birthplace of Francisco de Zurbaran, one of Spain's greatest Golden Age painters. A small museum dedicated to the artist is housed in his childhood home.

Pilgrims will find an albergue, restaurants, cafes, a supermarket, ATMs, and a pharmacy. The town has a pleasant main square.

The Extremaduran landscape around Fuente de Cantos is typical of the region: vast open plains, dehesa woodland, and scattered white-washed villages under enormous skies.

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Things to Do in Fuente de Cantos

History

Visit the Birthplace of Zurbaran

Francisco de Zurbaran, one of the great masters of Spanish Baroque painting, was born in Fuente de Cantos in 1598.

Sightseeing

See Where Zurbaran Was Baptised

The Iglesia de Nuestra Senora de la Granada is where Zurbaran was baptised in 1598.

Camino Moment

Walk the Extremaduran Plain

From Fuente de Cantos, the Via de la Plata heads north across increasingly flat, open terrain.

Food & Drink

Eat Extremaduran Stew

The restaurants in Fuente de Cantos serve classic Extremaduran food: caldereta de cordero, migas extremenas.

Accommodation in Fuente de Cantos

Where You Are on the Camino

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Fuente de Cantos

836 km to Santiago de Compostela

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