Arlanza (Bembibre) - Arlanza (Bembibre)

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Arlanza is a Minor Local Entity or district belonging to the municipality of Bembibre, located in the region of El Bierzo, in the geographical area or demarcation known as Bierzo Alto.

Context

Location

Arlanza is located on the road Bembibre–Noceda, Carretera de la Diputación CV-127-7, 6.9 km from Bembibre, between the towns of Viñales Y Labaniego, in the itinerary known as the Ruta de Noceda.

Geographically, it is located to the north-east of the El Bierzo region, located to the west of the province of León, located in a mid-slope area, near the Noceda River, at 720 meters above sea level.

Planimetrically, its population center is at the coordinates 42 ° 39′50 ″ N, 6 ° 25′07 ″ W, in decimal Erioll world.svg42.663772, -6.418656

Weather

According to its geographical position and that of El Bierzo, Arlanza It enjoys a microclimate, the result of an association of the Atlantic and Mediterranean influence, which makes possible a great plant and floristic diversity, with a production of excellent fruits and vegetables, which together with the wealth of fauna, make the enclave an unavoidable inland tourism destination.[1]

Some characteristics that can be summarized in the slogan The Bierzo. The essence of the Northwest, a quote from Raúl Garrido in his "Journey to an inland province."[1]

To get

By plane

The Leon airport, which entered service in 1999, is located near the city of Lion, 85 kilometers, about 50 minutes by car, from Bembibre. According to AENA statistics, in 2008 the airport handled 122,809 passengers, 5,700 operations and 15.9 tons of cargo.[2]

Maintains flights with Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Tenerife Y Paris all year round, flights that are reinforced in the summer season with links to Palma de Mallorca, Malaga-Costa del Sol, Ibiza, Gran canaria Y Minorca. It is also immersed in some expansion works that focus on the construction of a new terminal area and the doubling of the current surface of the platform.

By train

Bembibre train station

Bembibre has a railway station owned by Adif located in the Socuello neighborhood from where trains operated by Renfe depart to destinations such as Ponferrada, Lion, Corunna, Vigo, Valladolid, Madrid, Basque Country, Saragossa or Catalonia.

Long distance

In this same Bembibre station, there are essentially long distance cross-section services between Galicia, the Basque Country and Catalonia. In addition, the Trenhotel Atlántico allows a connection between Madrid and the north of Galicia.

The integration of the city of León in the Spanish High Speed ​​line, AVE, which connects this city with the Madrid-Chamartín railway center in about two and a half hours, and Madrid-Atocha, allows a Bembibre connection, through car or medium-distance rail to León, with the rest of the Spanish and European rail network.

Middle distance

Renfe's Media Distancia services that stop at the station link Arlanza, through Bembibre, with the cities of Madrid, Valladolid, León, Orense, Vigo, Monforte de Lemos and Ponferrada. Occasionally some of these trains continue or come from Madrid on weekends through an Intercity that uses the Madrid-Valladolid LAV, which entails a significant cut in time on the journey.

By car

Spanish motorway and motorway network

Arlanza is located near the Northwest Highway or A-6 corridor, in the Manzanal del Puerto - San Román de Bembibre section, with exits 364–366 Bembibre – Torre del Bierzo and 371– 372 Bembibre-Toreno, Exit that gives direct access to the CV-127-7 Provincial Road.

This Northwest Highway or A-6 complements the traditional La Coruña road that, since time immemorial, with different names, such as Camino Real a La Coruña, previously, in the time of the Roman Empire, Vía XVIII or Via Nova, crosses the vicinity of Arlanza, about 5.6 kilometers, a road currently in use, which connects different urban centers on the original or old lines.

By bus

There are bus lines to and from the Bembbre bus station where the company provides its services ALSA and that offers road services between Bermbibre and multiple national destinations such as Lion, Ponferrada, Corunna, Valladolid, Madrid, Gijon, or Barcelona.[3]

These services are provided from the new Bembibre bus station, located on Paseo del Vaguillo and Cantarranas and inaugurated in October 2016, which has a waiting room, offices, cafeteria, services and warehouse, which, together with five docks for buses and car parking, it offers a full range of facilities for travelers.

The road to Santiago

Church and sign of the Forgotten Path

Another way to get to Arlanza, towns and surroundings, is the Santiago's road, a phenomenon that begins, approximately, in the year 820 CE, the year in which the discovery of the tomb of Santiago el Mayor is dated, a discovery that is made among the remains of an abandoned Roman settlement and on which an enlarged temple is built in the following centuries until it became the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, and which gives rise to a pilgrimage movement that, from very different points of peninsular and European Christianity, converge in this tomb, in the city of Santiago de Compostela.

The Forgotten Way, Old Camino de Santiago or Camino de la Montaña, crosses Arlanza in its 19th stage - according to other references the 20th - between Labaniego Y Narrow, short stage and downhill. (See 19th stage, Labaniego-Congosto, 185 km or Stage 20 Labaniego Congosto)

Ways of Santiago in Bembibre

Sleep

Arlanza has a specific offer of accommodation of the type called "rural house", these services can be complemented with various rural houses and hotels that are located in the towns that make up the municipal term as well as in other nearby towns, in the Bierzo Alto, according to information in external links.

  • 1  House «Los Madroños», C / Gabino Cobos, s / n, 24319 Arlanza (Bembibre), León. ☎ 34 679 901 319, ✉: . Rural house with different services.

References

  1. ↑ 1,01,1Olano Pastor, Manuel I. (2010). «Tourist guide of the municipality of Bembibre». Bembibre City Council. Department of Education, Culture and Tourism. Retrieved July 8, 2019.
  2. ↑ Aena (ed.): «Statistics of Spanish airports 2008». Retrieved March 21, 2009.
  3. ↑«Intercity bus destinations» (in Spanish). Consulted on July 9, 2019. ALSA company page where destinations can be consulted from Bembibre.

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