Puente de Itero
Puente de Itero is a bridge on the Camino de Santiago . It bridges the Río Pisuerga and connects the provinces of Burgos and Palencia of the Autonomous Community of Castile and León .
The bridge was built by order of Alfonso VI. built. The eleven-arch bridge from the 11th century does not suggest the original Romanesque shape after structural redesign in the 17th century.
The name of the bridge - like that of the neighboring villages of Itero del Castillo and Itero de la Vega - comes from the former border location on the edge of the county of Castile. Itero comes from Hito, English boundary stone , which in turn goes back to the Latin petra ficta - (boundary) stone rammed into the ground . So while the county of Castile ended on the eastern bank of the Pisuerga , the traveler entered the Tierra de Campos on the western bank . In the Crónica Albeldense this landscape is called Campi Gothorum - Gothic fields . The mention of the bridge as Ponte de la Mulla by Domenico Laffi , an Italian clergyman and pilgrim of the 17th century, leads Bravo Lozano via muga or muria - a heap of stones back to the already mentioned border marking.
Near the bridge there is a pilgrims 'hostel in the former hermitage of Ermita de San Nicolás, which was previously the church of the pilgrims' hospice from the 12th century. The reconstruction of the hermitage in ruins goes back to the Italian James Society Cofraternità di San Jacopo di Compostella di Perugia, which is also responsible for running the hostel in the summer months (closed in winter).
literature
- Míllan Bravo Lozano: Practical pilgrim guide. The Camino de Santiago. Editorial Everest, Léon 1994, ISBN 84-241-3835-X
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Coordinates: 42 ° 16 '42 " N , 4 ° 14' 44" W.