{"id":22235,"date":"2026-06-02T13:34:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=22235"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:34:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:34:03","slug":"via-lemovicensis-a-day-in-burgos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/via-lemovicensis-a-day-in-burgos\/","title":{"rendered":"Via Lemovicensis: a Day in Burgos\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

T<\/span>oday is only my second rest day of this Camino, and I’m spending it in Burgos, one of my two favorite cities in Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite my best efforts to sleep in, I was awake promptly at 5:30. I did my very best to get back to sleep. I finally wandered down for breakfast after 7:30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then it was the 3L’s: Lauds, laundry, laze about. Burgos Cathedral (even if only in a chapel<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>) was an amazing place to pray Lauds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I had a few errands I needed to do, including a little bit of backpack patch repair. This began with a game I like to call “how many times can I stab myself with a needle” and rapidly progressed to “how do you say ‘fabric glue’ in Spanish” before finishing off with a rousing game of “wiping up all the glue I’ve spilled all over everything”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That particular project ended up taking almost an hour and a half. I’m reasonably certain that Francine could have done it in less than five minutes, and it would have looked a whole lot better when she was done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was after 11:30 that I finally made it into the cathedral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to sum up Burgos cathedral? It is, simply, the most magnificent piece of architecture I have ever seen. The art and architecture span from the Romanesque, Mud\u00e9jar, several phases of Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical, and into the modern day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It should be a chaotic cacophony, and yet somehow it is not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original building took centuries, and in the course of its construction, chapels the size of parish churches were built onto the original structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m reasonably certain that this place employed tens of thousands of artists, artisans, and craftsman over the course of its life. To this day, it provides one of the finest examples of artistic expression to be found anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the cathedral tour, I had a late lunch with Herve and Appalachia John. We ended up hanging out with a bunch of familiar faces who were all taking a rest day today: Caitie, Amy, Eric from Colorado, Dale from Australia, and a few others I met today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then it was back to the hotel to repack my backpack and for siesta, a most worthy Spanish custom that more countries would do well to adopt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I woke up, I had a phone conversation with my parents and Melanie. Everything seems to be going well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went back to the cathedral to pray Vespers, this time in a different chapel, the Capilla de Santa Tecla y Santiago. After praying for Francine, I left one of her cards here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I very much dislike electric votive candles, but they seem to be everywhere in Spain. I miss the churches in France where you could sometimes have four different kinds of candles to choose from. And fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herve and I met for tapas at one of the places on the Cathedral Plaza. Originally this was so we could figure out what to get for dinner, but it ended up pretty much being<\/em> dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For dessert, we found an ice cream shop down the street from the cathedral. The girl at the counter speaks at least three languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date:<\/strong> 02 June 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Place:<\/strong> Burgos <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s Photos!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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