STAGE: Fuenterroble de Salvatierra - San Pedro de Rozados

We leave Fuenterroble along the road to Casafranca, and soon we return to the road in a straight line to Fuensanta, from where we start the climb to Dueñas peak, crowned by a large cross of Santiago, at the base of which walkers carve the figure of the pilgrim in stone. It is a privileged place to admire the endless fields of Castilla y León.

It is the highest point on the entire Way, at 1,170 metres. From this point it is 500 km to Santiago de Compostela. The cross of Santiago that crowns it was made in 1997 by the Asociación de Amigos del Camino de Santiago Vía de la Plata together with the parish priest of Fuenterroble de Salvatierra, Blas Rodríguez, and marks the halfway point of the route between Seville and Compostela. This required the help of more than fifty volunteers pulling two enormous cartwheels joined by an axle of more than twelve metres, which today crowns this summit.

From here, we will go down to Calzadilla de Mendigos, where the remains of a hermitage remain, with two incomplete milestones on its door. And from there to San Pedro de Rozados.

This long and hard stage will be comforting in the shade of the parish church dedicated to San Pedro. As a result of its location in the preserved dehesa of Salamanca, San Pedro is the second municipality in the province in terms of the number of bull-breeding herds in the province.