Royal way of La Valdavia

Thus, in a 1230 landing of the monastery of Saint Zoilus in Carrión de los Condes about their possessions in Villasarracino, the race to Villaeles is already being talked about.

Still in the map of the Army of 1929,[1] there was the reference of the Camino Real de la Valdavia leaving from Villasarracino towards North.

In Villaeles he would cross the river to Villabasta where the Chapel of the Virgin of the Way was located, now disappeared, but whose image is still venerated in its parish to continue towards Villamelendro.

This route is the shortest way for those pilgrims who will pass to worship the Lignum Crucis to continue towards Santiago de Compostela by the French Way.

[10] Thus, in Castro de la Loma we can see the encirclement and destruction of a large Cantabrian civitas, which is why we speculate that the Valdavia was one of the incursion routes from the barracks established by Octavio Augusto in Sasamón.

But this is not the only Roman vestige, remains of vici appear along the Valdavia, testifying to the human presence from remote times in this area.

Outstanding are the Romanesque monuments of the first order that mark the way, such as the Lebanza Abbey and its famous capitals conserved in the Fogg Art Museum in Boston, [11] the collegiate church of San Salvador, the Romanesque church of the caserío de Tablares or the monasterio premostatense de San Pelayo.