The picturesque village is a very good example of the mountain villages in the upper Bierzo: The houses are built of slate, the typical building material of the region, and therefore covered. Another feature is the display on the street wooden balconies, which usually are accessible via exterior stairs.
oral tradition, the inhabitants of the Middle Ages to installation and maintenance of eight hundred poles to mark the pilgrimage were (at this level especially important for snow), free from tribute to the king.
As in other villages on the Camino improved the revival of the James Pilgrimage the economic base of the village: in addition to municipal and private hostel there are some Casas Rurales called apartments, a grocery store has reopened. The only restaurant, whose owner also owned by private and municipal manager of the hostel is, pilgrims enjoys an ambivalent reputation: good food, bad service. The latter has been included in some recent pilgrim guides found.
reminds When leaving a modern monument made of reinforcing steel in the death of the German cycling pilgrim Heinrich Krause, whom he here on 13 August 1987 was in an accident.
cyclists will therefore be continuing to warn against the winding and steep descent Molinaseca.
diverted after the monument the road after Compludo from. The Holy Fructuosus to here in the 7th century founded his first monastery, and have it dedicated to saints Justo and Pastor. In connection with the monastery has also forged by the medieval Compludo be seen, which is still operational and the hammers are still driven with the same medieval water drive. According to legend, here is the sword may have been forged, the Pelayo has used in the legendary Battle of Covadonga.
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