Reliegos .

RELIEGOS

Reliegos, a league of Mansilla as the famous popular adage “Of the leagues well measures in Reliegos to Mansilla” currently belongs to the City of Santas Martas, along with Vilamarco (for its demarcation also passes the Camino de Santiago)

Luengos, Malillos and Valdearcos Station. It currently has about 200 inhabitants. In the construction it highlights the architecture of adobe and rammed earth, complemented by Armante wooden latticed roof with wattles and cover with Arabic tiles. The wineries are important in everyday life peasant part, because not only serve to make and store wine, but also to preserve certain foods, place of meetings and events; means an excuse to meet friends, eat, drink and sing songs in the place like saying “Reliegos the sun rises, / Santas Martas moon / and my morenita sale / Mansilla de las Mulas”. Apiaries interesting are the typical wicker plastered with mud and dovecotes, that can be seen en route. eminently agricultural town.

The shelter

In this cozy town you will find a place for conversation, the quiet rest, solitude and silence. In it you will enjoy the hospitality of its people, as it has always maintained the Jacobean tradition. For his rough plowed lands and crosses the Roman road or walkway Trajana Pilgrims and from the twelfth century, the French Way runs through the center of the village towards the walled town of Mansilla de las Mulas. In Chapter 11 of Book V ( “Liber Sancte Jacobi ‘) Codex Calixtinus, written by the cleric Poitevin Aymery Picaud around 1130, it is situated in the 8th stage Reliegos ranging from Sahagun to Leon.

Already in 1084 Pelayo, bishop of Leon, built a hospital for pilgrims in front of the church of Santa Maria, handing over for maintenance, among others, the third part of the tithe to the church of Reliegos collected in bins, attached to the side left of the old church, and gave to Leon. In the Middle Ages pilgrims Reliegos already he offered a small hospital (there is still part of their structure).

It currently has a cozy hostel called Don Gaiferos, referring to the most authentic and inspired by the pilgrimage of old Conchiero of long white beards with “eyes fresh look / hazel eyes, tawny, / green as sea water” romance, referred to the Count of Poitiers, William X, pilgrim who died in 1137 at the cathedral of Santiago at the foot of St. James during the singing of the Good Friday and, later, would lead to a beautiful legend