The City that Never Sleeps

view of the plaza from the
lower terrace of the cathedral..

We are giving a huge shout out to Dr Erausquin from Vitoria which we understand is his hometown. We have spent the last few days exploring this beautiful city at the center of Basque culture. We discovered a little known Camino that links Norte with Camino Frances and it literally travels through the center of Vitoria. Since we have never found a Camino that we didn't want to hike, we set out to track this one down. Remember the caminos were developed to bring the pilgrims to the church and hospital where they would be provided food, shelter and care.  Following this camino, we passed two cathedrals, four churches, a large hospital, three palaces, government buildings, five museums and more beautiful parks than we have seen any where. Needless to say, it took us all day but we finally reached the Plaza de la Virgen Blanca and the monument to the Battle of Vitoria. And yes Dr. E, we climbed all those steps of the cathedral. Our room was across from Florida Park and the music & dancing went on all night. The keychain was given to us by a wonderful little lady as a memento of our stay at her lovely B&B.  We are now off to Pamplona and the big run.

A tribute to their love of jazz.
The bench has the names of
the great jazz musicians. We
will miss their big jazz festival
next week.

Symbol of Basque culture "laouburu"
which means 4-head cross, representing
water, air, earth, fire on Solar Circle.