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11th stage: from San Juan de Ortega to Burgos
The eleventh stage of the Route leaves San Juan de Ortega and heads for Agés and , on its way, passes the Chapel of Nuestra Señora del Rebollar (18th century). In Agés, where there used to be iron mines, travellers can pray inside the Parish Church (16th century). Then, the Route leaves the village through a Romanesque Bridge of a single span and arrives in Atapuerca, known worldwide for its prehistoric remains. Here walkers can visit San Martin´s Parish Church (16th century).

After leaving behind this ancestral village, the path continues to Cardenuela, where stands a Parish Church with a beautiful Reinassance façade, passes through Orbaneja and Villafría and reaches Gamonal, which was an episcopal seat before it was moved to Burgos.

An important monument is the Church of Nuestra Señora La Real y antigua (14th century), that contains a delicate transept from the 16th century.
Finally, the Route arrives in Burgos, a city that has always been connected with Santiago´s Pilgrimage. Throughout history there have been a total of 35 hospitals and refuges. Its magnificent Cathedral, one of the most important in Spain, offers many attractions to visitors such as chapels (Condestable, Santiago, Cristo de Burgos), the Choir and some of the façades.

But the Cathedral is not the only monument in Burgos, since the town is full of them: San Nicolas Church, the 14th-century Mudejar Door, the Monastery of Huelgas Reales, which contains many royal mausoleums and a Fabric Museum, the 12th-century El Rey Hospital , the most ancient in town and the San Lesmes Parish Church (15th-16th centuries).