One of the most innovatory and original bet from the “Junta de Castilla y Leon” to enhance the “Camino de Santiago” on the occasion of the celebration in 2010 of the Jacobean Holy Year is the adequacy of a small section of the route to the requirements of accessibility for people with limited capacity, mainly but not exclusively, with problems of reduced vision.
According to reports “La crónica de Leon”, the Board, through the Natural Heritage Trust of Castilla y Leon has already awarded a work destined to become accessible to disabled people such a stretch of road which will start from “La Cruz de Ferro” monument that leads to the El Bierzo region that descends to the towns of Molinaseca and Ponferrada.
The total budget for this work, which includes a number of other jobs on the road as it passes through Leo, consisting of carrying out tree planting, construction of rest areas and ships with boxes for horses, amounting to nearly one million euros (939,291 euros). Within the set of measures proposed include the construction in the vicinity of the Cruz de Ferro a small car park for disabled.
Also act on two sections of the route, one of another 100 meters and 150 meters where the current slope is 8% too high for the handling of wheelchairs and other types of transport for people with disabilities. It seeks to correct the slope until it was at 6%, as the best technical estimate of these transit vehicles and placing curbs on the sides delimiting the path.
Finally, for the visually impaired identify the different break points of the route, carry out the placement of a wooden beam cross the road. The end result will be a section adapted to a length of 980 meters, very modest beginning, considering that the Camino de Santiago has all the way over 800 miles, half of which run through the lands of Castile and Leon and over 200 in the province of Leon.
The initiative of the Natural Heritage Trust and the Junta de Castilla y Leon is worthy of being highlighted, and the fact that the first stretch of the Camino de Santiago accessible for disabled people in Castilla y Leon is located precisely in the region of Bierzo also should be a source of pride and satisfaction for this region.
There is still a lot of work to be done, since the Camino de Santiago has many black spots and very dangerous crosses several roads in the Community, in the province and in the Bierzo, but something is started. Perhaps it is not unreasonable to think that the next Year of St James, in 2021, all or most dela Pilgrim's Way is tailored to the disabled.
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