Peña Palé
The place
Peña Palé ("Pale rock") in Palencia province, Aguilar de Campoo/Alar del Rey area (northern Meseta, Castile and León, Spain), at 857 m elevation, on the pre-mountain Castilian plateau. Part of a continuous Spain Castile cluster (batches 210-361). A traditional pastoral hut (Peña, meaning rock/crag, a place name + Palé, meaning pale, referring to local pale limestone), in an area of submontane Mediterranean steppe, on the Aguilar branch of the Camino de Santiago del Norte, 400 km, part of the UNESCO World Heritage listing since 1993 for the thousand-year-old Way of St James pilgrimage + heritage of the Cañadas Reales, ancestral merino sheep droving routes, an 800-year-old national network of 125,000 km used for Castile's south-north transhumance + heritage of the Cantabri, an Iberian Celtic tribe from the Cantabrian Wars of 29-19 BC, the last resistance to Rome under Augustus in Hispania.
The setting
Palencia, Aguilar de Campoo/Alar del Rey, northern Meseta, Castile and León, Spain, 857 m, Castilian plateau, continuous cluster batches 210-361, Peña Palé pastoral hut, pale limestone rock, Mediterranean steppe + Camino de Santiago del Norte 400 km, UNESCO 1993, thousand-year-old pilgrimage + Cañadas Reales sheep-droving routes, 125,000 km, 800 years of transhumance + Cantabri, Iberian Celts, 29-19 BC, resistance to Rome under Augustus.
