The Commission of the Roads to Santiago through Castilla y León recently agreed include the Via Aquitania as a new Historic Route to Santiago, bringing the number of routes that have this distinction to ten, according to the Board in a statement.
With a route of 90 kilometers, it begins in Burgos and follows the line projected by the Roman road Ab Asturica Burdigalam, number 34 in Antonino's itinerary, also known as De Hispannia in Aequitania, which linked Astorga with Bordeaux.
Some historians consider it the original route. before it was planned, between the middle of the 11th century and the beginning of the 12th, by Kings Sancho III of Navarra and his descendants Alfonso VI of León and Sancho Ramírez of Aragón and Pamplona, the route known since then as the French Way.
It runs through historic towns such as Sasamón (the ancient Roman Segisamone), Tardajos (Teobrigula or Deobrigula), Osorno and Melgar de Fernamental (in the surroundings of Dessobriga), joining the French Way in Villalcázar de Sirga. From there, it continues as the French Way to Astorga (Asturica Augusta), passing through the old road of Carrión de los Condes (Lacobricam), one of whose sections can still be traveled in the vicinity of Benevívere. On the Via de Aquitania, and more specifically in Arconada, some historians have located what is considered one of the oldest hospitals on the peninsula, intended for the reception of pilgrims and others in need.
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