Vic was still not well enough this morning to walk, mainly as she didn’t want to stray too far from a flush toilet. A bush was not to be enough. We got a taxi to Sahagún for the day’s trip.
The hotel here is a four star Hilton clone. The wide open reception area alone is big enough to hold our whole hotel from last night. The service is excellent and the food is great.
It is located the best part of a km from the center of town though. Vic slept and I walked in to have a look. It is pretty sad – it is a dying town, and probably has been dying for 500 years. It is Monday so most things were closed, which didn’t help the dreary atmosphere.
The town was traded back and forth between the Christians and the Muslims for several hundred years and they each had a hand in destroying the architecture. There is little left of the several large churches – only arches and ruins. The construction is mostly thin red brick and mortar, rather than stone, and it has not survived well. Sahagún itself has not been a high point on the walk.
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