Burgos on El Camino

I walked into Burgos through the park that runs alongside the river through the city.

 There had been a lot of celebrations in the city the night before with several stages set up in plazas and workmen were sweeping about the detritus of the night before's party.

 But some of the older buildings were still visible such as the monastery.

 Although the church net door was obscured by hoardings and beer crates.

 An ornate entrance.

 One of the gateways into the inner walled city with an enclosed balcony above the archway, a typical feature of many buildings in the north west of Spain.

 A distant view of the cathedral and a church from over the river.

 Another great piece of architecture at one of the entrances to the old city.

 And the park along the river continues right through the centre, taken from the bridge over the river right in front of the gate seen above.

 Some details of the carvings above the archway.

 The front of the cathedral.

 The outer walls of the castle on the top of the hill.

 The castle entrance.

 A section of the city walls seen from the castle.

 A view over the roof tops of the city. Nothing special but the scar on the hill in the distance is a quarry and the same one that I had walked past some three hours earlier on El Camino.

 The castle on the hill is quite high and has steep sides and you can look over the spires of the cathedral .

Just below the castle is a medieval church with nothing special about it but it does have a curved triangular window which is unusual although judging by the design and the stonework it is a later addition but I am not going to stick my head out and volunteer a date.