San Bol
| Municipality of Iglesias: San Bol | |||
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| coat of arms | Map of Spain | ||
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| Autonomous Community : |
 Castile and León
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| Province : | Burgos | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 19 ′ N , 3 ° 59 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 890 msnm | ||
| Area : | 4.5 km² | ||
| Residents : | 0 (1503) | ||
| Population density : | 0 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Founding: | unknown, abandoned since 1503 | ||
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San Bol also Arroyo Sanbol or Sambol is a former village on the Camino de Santiago in the province of Burgos in the autonomous community of Castile and León , which is now part of the municipality of Iglesias .
The place name is said to have been rubbed off from San Baudilio, the name of a local saint and a monastery named after him.
There is little reliable information about the village, especially about its abandonment as a place of residence in 1503 can only be speculated. The declarations in circulation refer on the one hand to an enigmatic epidemic, on the other hand to the expulsion of Jews from Spain during the reign of the Catholic Kings .
There was a leprosy station in the village until 1352 , then the above-mentioned monastery of the Antonite Order . It initially belonged to the monastery of San Anton de Castrojeriz , later changed to the responsibility of the monastery of Oña and again later to that of the monastery of Cardeña. Only its structural remains and the pilgrims' hostel built in the 1990s are still reminiscent of the village of San Bol.
The pilgrims' hostel was built in the early 1990s as a place of refuge for pilgrims and, following the idea of refuge, it was built with basic equipment and no electrical and sanitary installations. The hostel draws water from the spring, which flows all year round at a temperature of 10 ° C. There are toilets in the open air, and washing facilities are provided by a water basin fed by the spring.
The background to the building of the hostel was also that the local government wanted to displace drug addicts living in Sanbol. However, the group occupied the newly built hostel and used it as accommodation. In 1996 the parish cleared the building and gave it to a hospitalero to look after the pilgrims.
The belief in the special healing power of the spring of San Bol, which is widespread in the Anglo-Saxon region, belongs to the area of modern legend formation . It is said to go back to the first Hospitalero "Luis" who would have told the story on a whim to a group of English pilgrims, whereupon it was widely used in English-speaking pilgrim guides.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Itemized area: Information on abandoned villages in Castile-León
- ↑ www.consumer.es Information on the Camino de Santiago (Spanish) ( Memento from June 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ cuentatuviaje.net ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Information from the Burgales Jacob Society in San Bol
- ↑ Arroyo de San Bol pilgrim hostel, available from the IGLESIAS municipal administration, tel. 947 161053
- ↑ For example, found in: Bethan Davies, Ben Cole: Walking the Camino De Santiago . Pili Pala Press, Canada 2003, ISBN 978-0-9731698-0-5 , books.google.de
- ↑ "Like zijn voeten baadt te Sambol, zal de rest van de weg tot in Compostela geen last meer hebben van blaren, verzwikkingen enz ..." (If you bathe your feet in the source of Sambol, the rest of the way to Compostela will no longer be a problem have with blisters, sprains etc. ...) quoted from Ludo Mineur, see the following individual reference
- ↑ Ludo Mineur, former hostel manager in Sambol (Dutch. Scroll to the keyword "Sambol".)
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