VP15 - Cáparra - Baños de Montemayor - 28,5 km
Itinerary
In Cáparra, you will keep going on the causeway and soon after you will cross the road towards Guijo de Granadilla, going through some streams to finally get to a paved road.
Follow this path until you reach the road to Zarza de Granadilla. Keep going on this road for a while and the leave it turning left after crossing a bridge. Continue heading Northwest, crossing the N-630 and getting to Aldeanueva del Camino.
You will leave Aldeanueva going up to Puerto de Béjar, on the road that leads to Baños de Montemayor (on the a parallel path from the intersection with Hervás road). Next, you will enter Baños de Montemayor, where you can visit Humilladero Chapel.
Baños de Montemayor
Baños de Montemayor is a town in Cáceres Province, in Extremadura. Even if it is quite a small town, it has two churches, since it used to be part of two different dioceses: Plasencia and Coria. The Silver Route indicated the limit between these two ecclesiastical divisions and Baños was crossed from North to South by this route. The one belonging to Coria, Santa María Church, is the one that still works as a church; the one from Plasencia, Santa Catalina, nowadays is used as Baños cultural concert hall.
Baths
The town has some of the most important Roman baths, which are the ones who give the name to Baños and are still being used. Baños is one of the main thermal centres in Extremadura.
External info sources about this route and recommended websites:
Turismo Castilla y León
Amigos del Camino de Santiago de Sevilla
Asociación de Amigos de los Caminos de Santiago de Guipúzcoa
Wikipedia
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