Reliegos

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What is there in Reliegos

Reliegos is a village in the municipality of Santas Martas, in Leon Province, on the Camino Frances.

After the long straight from El Burgo Ranero, few villages are as welcome as Reliegos: it appears in a gentle hollow with its cellars dug into the ground and a main street that is the Camino itself. It has about two hundred residents and a much older history than it looks, because tradition places the Roman town of Palantia nearby, where three military roads met. But the story everyone tells is another: on 28 December 1947 a meteorite fell right in the main street, a couple of metres from an inhabited house, and its main fragment is kept in the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid. From here about six kilometres remain to Mansilla de las Mulas, where the two variants that split at Calzada del Coto meet again.

Accommodation in Reliegos

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Distances from Reliegos

From Reliegos to Mansilla de las Mulas it is about 6 km.

To Villamoros de Mansilla it is about 10.5 km.

And to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, in Santiago de Compostela, about 336.5 km remain.

Reliegos on the Camino

A hamlet of Santas Martas, Reliegos is the last village before Mansilla de las Mulas on the Camino Frances. Pilgrims know it for its bar decorated with walkers’ messages and for its hostel, on a quiet street of wine cellars.

What to see in Reliegos?

Church
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Church of Saints Cornelius and Cyprian

Parish Church of Saint Cornelius and Saint Cyprian in Reliegos In the heart of Reliegos, a small Leon town crossed

Services

Reliegos has simple services for pilgrims:

  • Shop: yes.
  • Bars: several.
  • Doctor’s surgery: a few days a week.
  • ATM: none.
  • Pharmacy: none; the nearest is in Mansilla.

Church

The rebuilt church of San Cornelio y San Cipriano holds images of Saint Lazarus, of the patron saints and of the Virgen del Pilar with the Child.

History

Reliegos is identified with ancient Palantia, a Roman staging post where three roads met, among them the Via Traiana. In the Middle Ages it appears in royal and church documents, and in the 15th century it passed to the lordship of Mansilla, held by the Enríquez family.

The Reliegos meteorite

On 28 December 1947 a meteorite weighing several kilos fell near the village, one of the few in Spain that were seen to fall and then recovered.

Landscape

Reliegos lies between Tierra de Campos and the Esla plain, on flat land at just over 800 metres. It is crossed by the Valdearcos stream, which flows into the Esla, and surrounded by irrigated land where vegetables are grown.

Festivities

Highlights through the year:

  • Holy Week.
  • San Isidro Labrador, with the blessing of the fields.
  • Cultural Week, at the beginning of August.
  • Patron saint festivities of San Cornelio and San Cipriano.

In short

Reliegos is a small village with good stories: a crossroads of Roman roads, a meteorite and a bar that is already part of Camino legend.

CountrySpain
Autonomous communityCastilla y León
ProvinceLeon Province
ComarcaVega del Esla
Judicial districtLeón
MancomunidadEsla-Bernesga (Palanquinos)
Location42°28′27″N 5°21′21″O
Elevation825 m
Population227 inhabitants (INE 2017)
DemonymRelieguense
Postal code24339
Dialling code987
Camino de Santiago Frances
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