Via de la Plata day 27 & 28: Zamora

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As I was ahead of schedule having foregone rest days earlier in the walk, I had two “0” days in Zamora. It’s a beautiful city – at least the traffic free old town is. We visit the ‘burbs tomorrow on our way north.

The city was one of the mansios on the via north from Merida, and was inhabited long before the Romans showed up. The beauty of the city dates from more recent times, with fortifications dating from the 12th century, and the many Romanesque churches begun in the 12th century and onwards. Here’s some pics:

This is a sculpture of the Merlu, the folks that summon the Brotherhood of Jesús Nazareño during Holy Week.

And because it’s our anniversary and to celebrate Susan’s arrival in Spain, I lashed out on an ‘upmarket albergue. It’s one of Spain’s paradors – historic buildings that many years ago were converted into hotels as a way to both preserve the building and to encourage tourism.

Exterior
Inner courtyard
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In 2009, we embarked on a one-year family sailing adventure aboard a Grand Soleil 39, "SV Mulan". Our original sailing blog is linked on this site. In 2017, Susan, Andrew, Sam & Max walked the Camino Frances from St-Jean-Pied-de-Porte to Santiago de Compostella (and rode bikes from Burgos to Leon as a blister recovery strategy), and in 2018 Jack also joined the crew as we waled the northern section of the Camino Portuguese from Porto to S de C. In 2019 Andrew, accompanied by Max for the first few hundred kms, and Susan for the Tiscan section, walked the via francigena from Canterbury to Rome. That journey is blogged in this site. This blog is planned as an alternative to the endless instagram posts used previously to communicate with those interested in our travels - although there is a linked instagram account as well!

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