Saturday, February 15, 2014

a religious hermitage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wot4YDC2Amc
The Hermitage on the island of San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, Spain. - It is connected to the mainland by a man made bridge. On top of the island stands a hermitage .... The small church dates from the 10th century and seems to have come from the Knights Templar. In the year 1053 it was donated, by don Iñigo López Lord of Biscay, to the monastery of San Juan de la Peña near Jaca in Huesca. Medieval burials from the 9th and 12th centuries have been found on the esplanade and in the hermitage. In 1593 it was attacked and sacked by Francis Drake. Among other incidents, it has caught fire several times. On the November 10, 1978, it was destroyed in one such fire. Two years later, on June 24, 1980 it was reinaugurated. The hermitage belongs to the parish of San Pelayo in Bakio.

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