{"id":996,"date":"2026-04-26T14:11:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/?p=996"},"modified":"2026-04-26T20:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:15:23","slug":"april-26-walking-day-belorado-to-villafranca-montes-del-oca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/2026\/04\/26\/april-26-walking-day-belorado-to-villafranca-montes-del-oca\/","title":{"rendered":"April 26: Walking Day, Belorado to Villafranca Montes del Oca"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Miles walked: 8.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cumulative total: 139.5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flights of stairs equivalent climbed: 17<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pleasant easy walk today, cold at the beginning, warm at the end. Went through several charming little towns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had breakfast in the small village of Tosantos. I’m mainly bringing this up because I love that name: Tosantos. The bar there seemed like it was set up in someone’s house and was run by three or four very young people. Barely in their 20s, I think. Our order of fried eggs and toast really confounded them and they spent a long time trying to figure out what we wanted and then how to charge us since it wasn’t on their regular menu. They were very serious and discussed it together for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Villafranca Montes de Oca is a small town but as usual with an impressive church. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a feared point in the medieval pilgrimage to Santiago because it is at the beginning of the Montes de Oca (Goose Mountains) which were plagued by bandits and robbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We wanted to stay in the super nice and historic hotel here (where we stayed in 2014) but there was no vacancy when I was making reservations a few months ago. So we are in Pension y Bar Ivis which, despite 4.3 review on Google, is not great (soft beds, ouch). We decided to hang out in the bar\/meson at the other end of town. (The only other place in town open.) A busy place full of locals out for Sunday lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just outside Belorado. Gronze called this little park one of the nicest spots on the Camino. It was very nice but we didn’t stop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In tiny village of Villambistia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Walking into Villafranca Montes de Oca<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Iglesia de Santiago Ap\u00f3stol in Villafranca. Some descriptions said it was Romanesque and some said it was built in 18th century. So … I am confused.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Miles walked: 8.2 Cumulative total: 139.5 Flights of stairs equivalent climbed: 17 Pleasant easy walk today, cold at the beginning, warm at the end. Went through several charming little towns. We had breakfast in the small village of Tosantos. I’m mainly bringing this up because I love that name: Tosantos. The bar there seemed like … Continue reading “April 26: Walking Day, Belorado to Villafranca Montes del Oca”<\/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-996","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\/996","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=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}