Camino de Santiago

The route of the Camino de Santiago on its way through the old quarter of Villaviciosa. A few hundred metres further on is one of the points where pilgrims can choose the classic Oviedo route or the coastal route by Gijón. If they choose the Oviedo route they get offered a diversion onto the Gijón route again some 5 or 6 km further on. 
The "cockleshell" sign is the official waymark for the Camino, and it is shown also in the extra. The extra is "la Casona de los Hevia" - the mansion of the Hevia family - which in 1517 was the first house to host Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire on his way to the capital, Valladolíd, to inherit his title as Charles I of Spain. 
The house was till fairly recently neglected and abused by a philistine town council which at one point had let it decline to the point where it was being used to house some kind of electricity generator. The national government rebuked and fined them, and the house was restituted. It now houses various community rooms as well as the tourist Office and the town library. The two signs on the front indicate the Camino de Santiago and the Ruta Carlos I (which follows the path he is thought to have been taken by to get from his landing-place to Villaviciosa). The third Camino that passes through here, the Camino de Covadonga, is for some reason not recognised with the other two. The old Town Council, by the way, the one I called "philistine", got its come-uppance at local elections about four years ago.