Albergue Laganares (San Nicolás del Real Camino)

OPEN FROM MARCH TO OCTOBER.

It is located in a farmhouse typical of Tierra de Campos, built of adobe and rammed earth with a wooden roof, materials used in the typical buildings of our region. The house was restored trying to respect its traditional architecture and equipping it with the services a Pilgrims’ Hostel requires, giving it a welcoming, family atmosphere.

It has 20 beds distributed in rooms of 4 and 6 people, a large bathroom, garden, terrace, lounges and a bar-restaurant where we offer breakfasts, sandwiches and the Pilgrim’s Menu, with traditional, completely home-made cooking.

Since 2009 we have held the distinction of Superior Hostel of the Caminos de Santiago.

We offer our visitors the following services:

• Washing machine.
• Dryer.
• Washing area.
• Clothes line.
• Heating.
• First-aid kit.
• Place for the bicycles.
• Free internet.
• Phone.
• Bar-Restaurant.
• Taxi.

We also have sheets and towels.

The first records of the existence of San Nicolás date from the end of the 12th century; the village probably existed well before, but the only data we currently have place us exactly in 1195, when a document attests to a lepers’ hospital that existed in our village.

That hospital was founded by Don Tello Pérez de Meneses, a very influential person at the time, who entrusted its management to the Augustinian monks of Santa María de Trianos.

The hospital cared for 13 lepers and pilgrims doing the Camino de Santiago; it was a priory of the Trianos monastery, but became as important as the monastery itself. It owned a great deal of land in the region and several mills in the area, held charters from King Alfonso VI, and its economy was sustained thanks to its properties and the donations of very influential people in the Castilian society of the time.

Currently there is no building in the village recalling the existence of that hospital; it is said that a column in the village cemetery could be a vestige of that construction.

There was also a Templar church that unfortunately disappeared; the current one dates from the 13th century and a beautiful Baroque altarpiece can be admired in it.

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