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Wise Pilgrim APPThe fields around Boadilla are dotted with adobe palomares — traditional dovecotes. Find your way to one and explore the interior: thousands of small niches line the walls, each designed for a pair of pigeons. The birds were kept for their droppings (used as fertilizer) as much as for their meat.
Adjacent to the town square is the Romanesque Iglesia de la Asunción and a well-preserved rollo jurisdiccional — a carved stone column that marked the town's judicial authority. It's one of the better-preserved examples on the meseta. A couple of bars and an albergue serve the village.
San Antonio de Padua is celebrated from June 13 to 15.
The camino leaving Boadilla joins a path alongside the Canal de Castilla, an 18th-century waterway built for both irrigation and transport. You'll follow the canal to the outskirts of Frómista, crossing at one of the locks. It's flat, pleasant walking with water alongside — a novelty on the meseta.
