{"id":1127,"date":"2026-05-06T17:26:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2026-05-10T16:28:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:28:03","slug":"may-4-5-6-in-palencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/2026\/05\/06\/may-4-5-6-in-palencia\/","title":{"rendered":"May 4, 5, 6: In Palencia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Monday, we explored the town. Ran some errands. Rested. Charlie did a 3 mile round trip walk to Decathlon to get a cap to replace the one he lost on the bridge in N\u00e1jara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Tuesday we took a train to Sahag\u00fan and back. I’ll talk about that in a separate post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, Wednesday, we toured the Cathedral, cooked a fabulous lunch of pork chops, fresh (green) asparagus, salad, fresh bread and butter, and then took a walk along the canal that leads out of town. I’ll do a separate post about the cathedral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some photos around Palencia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elegant old man. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One of the first thing I noticed walking the streets is how many people I’d see chatting. I think it’s a small enough place that people always run into people they know when they go out. I liked this woman’s bright red shoes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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People waiting in line to buy lottery tickets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Palencia Post Office. The Correos all over Spain are often painted yellow\/gold and some are quite elegant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The canal where we walked today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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When we were walking we noticed this hill in the distance on the other side of the city and we both thought it was probably a cell tower on top. Something told us to look more closely so we aimed our phone telephoto lenses at it. We looked it up. It is called Cristo del Otero. It is an art deco statue of Jesus, erected in 1931, the same year as Christ the Redeemer was erected in Rio de Janeiro. This one is the second highest Christ statue in the world (after the one in Rio). Artist: Victorio Macho.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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On Monday, we explored the town. Ran some errands. Rested. Charlie did a 3 mile round trip walk to Decathlon to get a cap to replace the one he lost on the bridge in N\u00e1jara. On Tuesday we took a train to Sahag\u00fan and back. I’ll talk about that in a separate post. Today, Wednesday, … Continue reading “May 4, 5, 6: In Palencia”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}