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The cave church of Pisuerga Olleros is another jewel of this architecture that fills our environment. Located about 9 km from Aguilar de Campo, we can consider it framed in our territory. Just in 40 minutes we come from Polientes, very short distance by the time you're on vacation.
For your visit we have the phone 979122385 / 61955681 to contact. The summer hours are 11.00-14.00 and 17.00-20.00. It belongs to the province of Palencia, but it is as if Valderredible related.
Unlike Valderredible the Ebro river near here is the Pisuerga. Your environment is more Castile and Cantabria, so if the same is wealdense rock (sandstone).
Its location, its surroundings, is the most beautiful I've seen. Perched high above the town, served as a refuge for Christian communities used this cave for protection. On the way to church we see a small bell tower that was built to defend the established community in height.
At the time could expect to live 40 people in the cave. This architecture makes us to show patience and hard work of all these people who for centuries were working the rock to get to build what has now come to our hands.
At all times was reflected as a place of protection from persecution, there is even an area inside where the fire lit to avoid being seen from outside. It is perfectly clear the original point of the cave and from where it was digging into the centuries. How far we are today, this slow pace of construction!
By entering three columns highlight that support the construction. The guide told us that only one of them is original, the other two have been reshaped by erosion. The church is beautiful, the color of the sandstone is fascinating, columns and arches are simply wonderful.
Currently holds worship, we added that reviewing all the church has undergone since the first settlers there in the eighth century were installed inside. The small altar, the baptismal font, the arches ... all this is shaping a unique temple. Duante all these movements of settlers migrated-IX-X centuries, were installed around this environment of northern Palencia Valderredible and many groups fleeing Muslim Spain.
We went to the choir, the views from the high even better perspective. They are perfectly the recesses in the rock to support the second floor that had at the time the cave. Always wanted to sleep in the high heat conservation, numerous holes are carved in the rock samples from the second floor.
We can observe from the choir added all that history has been accumulating since the tenth century: Bobeda barrel apses, columns ... This forms one of the most beautiful sets hypogeum seen in the area.
The temple is complemented by two lauras coming, a necropolis of anthropomorphic tombs carved into the contours of the temple-rock, all, forming one of the nicest places I've seen the rock in the area.
We're talking about a hermit sets for its location and construction, we can not miss our visit to southern Cantabria. A new example of these architectures cave never cease to amaze and astonish. A cultural tourism / sustainable gives us experiences and feelings that we nourish the spirit.
Fascinating story that leads us how they were hiding refuge and later already showed these early Christians to retreat to these environments. A fascinating era that we must know, preserve, protect and disseminate to remain part of our historical memory.
A jewel that we have a step!
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