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Town on the pilgrimage road to Santiago de Compestela, 32 km from Palencia. It provided four hospices and the Monastery of San Martin to the pilgrims. The church, built in 1066, has been called the climax of Romanesque archtiecture in Castille.
Latitude: 42.26892. Longitude: -4.40289.
And the day in which they left Burgos they took up their lodging at Fromesta; and the next day they came to Carrion, but the King would not lodge there, and he went on to Sahagun, where the army awaited him, and took up his lodging without the town; and on the following morning he bade the host advance, and they made such speed that in three days they arrived before Zamora, and pitched their tents upon the banks of the Douro; and he ordered proclamation to be made throughout the host that no harm should be done until he had commanded it.