Exploring history in London & abroad with my camera
Villafranca del Bierzo, on the Camino de Santiago, is a wonderfully peaceful little town in the hills in the East of Léon in Northern Spain. If you only have two days in the town then do see these sights. The Church of Santiago is where the Camino enters the town on the way to Santiago. And…
Las Médulas is a spectacular landscape about half an hour south of Villafranca del Bierzo, created when the Romans mined for gold, and now a World Heritage Site. The local population had already found the gold, but intensive open-cast mining started in c.25BC and this became the most significant gold mine in the Roman Empire.…
