Santa Cilia de Jaca

Just south of Jaca the camino turns west, it still follows the Rio Aragon. There is a detour, that takes the walkers to San Juan de la Peña. I was a little lazy and as I had been there some years ago, I choose the shorter "main-camino", that runs through a very hot, wide plane. Around noontime I reached Santa Cilia, where the camino crosses the N-240. As you can see (right), car-drivers are warned of limping pilgrims here - while the pilgrims (left) follow the advice to cross the road. Santa Cilia was the first village, where I noticed an obvious abundance of new streetlights. Santa Cilia has a population of about 200. In some villages I had the impression, that there were more streetlights, than inhabitants.