This document provides information about the landscape, climate, wildlife, and history of the Palencia province in Spain. It discusses the mountainous north area with cold winters and forests, the lands of fields known for crops and wildlife like partridges, and the Cerrato region with Mediterranean forests. It then highlights some important Romanesque and Gothic churches on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route, including the churches of Saint Martin in Frómista and Santiago in Carrión de los Condes. It concludes with details about the pilgrimage route across Palencia and local village populations, products, economies, and traditions.

1. OUR REGIONOUR REGION
Castilla y León
Spain
Palencia
Europe

2. THE LANDSCAPETHE LANDSCAPE

3. The mountain
-In the north
of the
province.
-Climate:
cold and
high rainfall
-Flora:
forests and
shrubs
-Fauna:
wolves,
bears,
grouse,
owls ...

4. NORTH AREA
-Long cold
winters with
frequent frosts
and heavy
rains.
-Very short
summer, dry
season, cool
temperatures.
-Wildlife like
mountain with
cereal crops
and irrigation.

5. LANDS OF FIELDS
-Fauna: great
bustard,
partridge, quail,
rabbit, hare, wild
boar.
-Flora: rainfed
crops such as
wheat, barley ...
-Climate:
Winters, long
cold and
abundant
rainfall, dry and
very hot
summers.

6. THE CERRATO
-Fauna: hare,
rabbit, otter,
great
bustard...
-Flora:
Mediterranea
n forest, dry
farming and
irrigation.
-Climate: cold
winters and
dry summers
with high
temperatures

7. ROMANESQUE and GOTHIC ART
Saint Martin. Frómista.
Church in Villalcázar de Sirga
Main front of
Santiago Church.
Carrión de los Condes.
Organ inside the church in
Tamara de Campos.

8. Saint Martin, Frómista.
It’s in Frómista, and it is de most important Romanesque church of the
province. Located on ST.James’ way, it was built in
the second half of the eleventh century by order of
Mrs. Mayor of Castilla, as part of a monastery of
San Martín, now disappeared.

9. Main front of Santiago Church.
Carrión de los Condes.
Anonymous twelfth century Pantocrator surrounded
by tetramorfos in the main front of Santiago church
in Carrión de los Condes.

10. Villalcázar de Sirga’s church
It’s a temple-fortress built in the late
twelfth century, in the transition from Romanesque
to Gothic, and completed in the fourteenth century. Milestone on St.James’ Way, which
has been one of their most important religious centres, and linked to the Religious Order
of the Templar, is of great artistic interest.

11. Organ inside the church in Tamara
de Campos.
It is an organ located in the church of Tamara
Field, built in 1785 and supported by a
wooden column that resembles marble.

12. ST.JAMES’ WAY
Pilgrims on their way to
Santiago.
Map of
St.James’
Way
across the
province
of
Palencia.
The
scallop
shell is
the
symbol of
the
pilgrims.

13. -There are many
routes to Santiago,
the most important
starts at
Roncesvalles.
-Other routes start
in French cities like
Paris, Vézelay, Le
Puy, Arles and
Narbonne.
ST.JAMES’ WAY’S
ROUTES

14. SPAIN ROUTES

15. FRENCH
WAY
PILGRIMS’
CARD

16. Compostela: Diploma
certifying that you
have made the
ST.James’ Way. It is

17. LOCAL PRODUCTS, RURAL ECONOMY.

18. Carrión de los Condes (2.220) Osorno (1460)
Boadilla del Camino (120)
Frómista (830) Villalcázar de Sirga (180)
OUR VILLAGESOUR VILLAGES

19. TRADITIONSTRADITIONS
The “Olé”: local festivity in Frómista
Corpus Christi festivity in Carrion de
los Condes
Religious procession
Traditional costume