Day 40 Thu 01 May
We had a day off in León, staying in a new apartment in the old seminary next to the Cathedral. Now you pay to enter the magnificent Gothic Cathedral with its 1800 square meters of stained glass windows. Somehow its lost the power to move you that it had when it was still just a church.
It was Labor Day so all shops were closed. The bars all shut about 4pm and don’t open again till 8pm so we did our tapas crawl at lunch time.  Turns out the tapas were all free (with a drink) and every bar had different ones.  Also every bar makes its own Limonada which is not what it sounds like, but red wine with spices and lemon, a bit like Sangria, but only made at Easter so we had to sample quite a few. But we are not here to drink; we are here to walk!

City Walls. León

Gothic Cathedral de Santa María (13th century) completed in 40 years

Cathedral entrance

Part of the Cathedral's 1800 square meters of stained glass windows

We stayed in the old Seminary, now new modern apartments

Old León

Old León mansion

Plaza Santiago

Entrance to Basilica San Isidoro (11th century)

Inside San Isidoro

Paintings on San Isidoro

San Marcos work began 16th century finished 18th century

Entrance to San Marcos has Camino shells

Coffin in San Marcos

Passageway in San Marcos leads to ...

... to this ...

... and on to the interior

Bar street on a Thursday afternoon

Limonada Leonesa

Pulpo (octopus) at the Labor Day fair in the main plaza

Pilgrims cross the Puente de San Marco on the way out of León