{"id":1089,"date":"2015-09-30T16:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T20:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2017-01-04T15:36:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T20:36:17","slug":"satanic-route-stage-5-len-to-ponferrada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/?p=1089","title":{"rendered":"Satanic Route stage 5 León to Ponferrada"},"content":{"rendered":"

So we are getting closer to Compostela, this stage takes us from León to Ponferrada. Short stage around 100 kms. IT was holiday the day I left León so there was no traffic at all. I crossed myself with the bullring of León.
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\"Leon<\/a>

Leon bullring<\/p><\/div>
\nArriving to Astorga<\/a> is quite easy, flat 45 kms, good road and many cyclist too. Now I really liked Astorga, I was never there before and I really liked it. The cathedral is really worth a visit and the Episcopal palace too.
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\"Cathedral<\/a>

Cathedral entrance<\/p><\/div>
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\"Cathedral<\/a>

Cathedral and Episcopal Palace<\/p><\/div>
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\nSince I liked the city and it was around 1300 I went to Main Square to have a beer and eat something.

\"City<\/a>

City Hall<\/p><\/div>

\"Local<\/a>

Local beer<\/p><\/div>

\"Travel<\/a>

Travel light<\/p><\/div>
\nAt around 1500 started the route to Ponferrada, I decided to take the LE-142, instead of the N-VI. No traffic and regular road. One col ahead, Cruz de Ferro<\/a>. Met a nice italian old man along the way, we made five or sic kms. together and had a nice chat. Last kms. of where a little tough for me, but I must admit that the views were amazing.

\"View<\/a>

View from Cruz de Ferro<\/p><\/div>

\"Cruz<\/a>

Cruz de Ferro<\/p><\/div>
\nAfter Cruz de Ferro is all down towards Ponferrada<\/a>. The views are nice too.
\n\"IMG_20150624_175730\"<\/a>\"IMG_20150624_180321\"<\/a>
\nAnd we finally reach Ponferrada.

\"Ponferrada<\/a>

Ponferrada City Hall<\/p><\/div>

\"Ponferrada<\/a>

Ponferrada medieval castle<\/p><\/div> The truth is that I didn’t liked Ponferrada, looked like an industrial city mostly linked to minery. Maybe I should have stayed longer. So far I haven’t had any issues along my trip, no flat tyre, no rain, nice weather. Don’t know whether I was lucky or I chose the right week for the trip.<\/p>\n

Strava file here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So we are getting closer to Compostela, this stage takes us from León to Ponferrada. Short stage around 100 kms. IT was holiday the day I left León so there was no traffic at all. I crossed myself with the bullring of León. Arriving to Astorga is quite easy, flat 45 kms, good road and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[64],"tags":[73,68],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTQgt-hz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}