<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Palatino Linotype" LANG="0">Hello you all,<BR>
Until now the only non-private albergue in Pamplona has been the one run by the Camino Friends Association of Navarra in the (lovely) 12th century San Saturnino church. The albergue, unfortunately, can only accommodate 20 pilgrims. During the summer pilgrims are sent off to the Ikastola Amaiur, which is a college in the outskirts of the city, where up to 100 pilgrims may be housed. (I have visited this facility; it is actually commodious, clean and comfortable, but it is a school in a residential neighborhood and quite far from the center of the city)<BR>
The municipality of Pamplona has announced that beginning in Holy Week new albergues will be available: One will be in the Institute of the Sisters of the Holy Spirit, located at 2 de Mayo (May 2) street, number 2, and will have full facilities for 94 pilgrims; another, with spaces for 24 pilgrims, will be in the Chalet Iraizos, next to Molino de Caparroso (Caparroso mill) and yet another is being readied by the barefoot Carmelites of Saint Joseph at their convent.<BR>
Also,<BR>
The province of Lugo has intensified the construction of Camino signs throughout the Primitive Way; kilometer markers and yellow arrows will be available throughout the entire route. (The fantastic Monxes de Sobrado Monastery is in the Primitive Route and it alone makes the route memorable, but the whole route is quite lovely, criscrossed by rivers and bgreenery and dotted with medieval treasdures everywhere; reportedly this is the route that Saint Francis followed. Primitive, in the context of the Santiago pilgrimage, means "the first".)<BR>
Warm regards,<BR>
Rosina <BR>
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