If you want to spend a pleasant day enjoying the wonders that nature offers us would recommend this tour, which consists in visiting a cave shrine in Cadalso, admire the church of Saint Martin of Elina and became fascinated with the waterfall and the people of the Orbaneja Castillo.
Should take the motorway direction Reinosa once Reinosa must continue to move straight to the exit 122 showing Polientes. When passing Polientes will of the people who are in the CA272 and CA274 then renamed, will reach a roundabout where you first start out in the cave shrine of Cadalso. Must take the exit.
To get to the collegiate church of Saint Martin of Eline must continue the road straight and you will see an indication on the right hand that announces the church.
From the church to the people of Castle Orbaneja must continue along the same road by which they went to the church and it will find the waterfall on the left.
ROCK CHURCH OF CADALSO
Cadalso rock of the church in the town of Valderredible (Cantabria, Spain), was declared of cultural interest on June 29 1983. Situated in the town of Cadalso, right on the edge of the road from Polientes, capital city, to climb (Burgos), less than a kilometer from Ruerrero already near Saint Martin of Elin.
Dating
It is a cave church, that is carved directly into the sandstone, which means seize the geology of the valley of the Ebro for religious buildings. The timing of such events in the cave south of Cantabria is controversial, pointing out some time in the High Middle Ages.
Some authors argue for the origin of these pre-Romanesque churches in time for Visigothic inscriptions appeared in other churches, with a chronology before 711 at which the Arabic conquest. In the case of the rock church of Our Lady of Mount Caramel remains a broad time frame between the seventh century and X.
Description
It is a small church. It has a single rectangular nave covered by a barrel vault and finished in quadrangular apse closer and higher than the ship. Triumphal arch has half a point. In the front of the ship is a futile abocinado currently blinded, probably the only opening that existed at the source.
Can be seen on the facade repiqueteado tracks, perhaps of a former porch, now disappeared.
On one side stands a belfry. Is well restored and added later, as the table of the altar, the steeple that rises on one side and, very probably, the two windows in the header, one rectangular and one round is over in the form of an engraved arch .
On the outside of the church, as in other forms of rock Valderredible, two altomedievales tombs carved into the rock. One is rectangular and the other anthropomorphic, that is, with a horseshoe-shaped head.
SAINT MARTIN DE ELIN
Saint Martin of Eline de Cantabria is a village that belongs to the municipality of Valderredible in Campo. to 685 meters. The population in 2007 (INE), was 64 people, the people being visited especially for its Romanesque church.
It is divided into three neighborhoods: Barrio de Abajo or gravel, Barrio de Arriba and Cabrerizo.
Collegiate of San Martín de Eline
It is one of four collegiate built in Romanesque style in Cantabria near Santillana, Castañeda, and Cervatos, and also one of the most unique buildings of this era in the region. Their values architectural, sculptural and pictorial suggesting that it is a powerful monastery in his time, and in the sixteenth century collegiate church, was taken over by the most powerful of San Miguel de Aguilar de Campo.
The Collegiate Church of San Martín de Eline, which was declared of cultural interest in 1931, is situated in the Barrio de Arriba. It is believed that the church was originally built as a monastery, since it functioned as such in the century, then went to church, and finally parish.
The Collegiate Church of San Martín de Eline (located in Saint Martin of ELIN) is the most outstanding church Valderredible size, monumentality and beauty during the Middle Ages the main monastery of the valley. It is of cultural interest in Monument, according to a statement dated June 4, 1931.
However, little has been preserved of their papers, although he wrote the book “Misery of Ome” one of the few preserved the notebook Via. Already in the tenth century have had important, since in the current cemetery Mozarabic arches and a few windows on the northern wall of the cloister of the time. This seems to be ruined factory mozarabic in 1102 and should definitely be on this date when it began the present church, one of the first of Cantabria, although the faculty seems to be much later, in the sixteenth century.
In this faculty there is a large collection of sarcophagi, some beautifully decorated. There is a very striking for the richness of its reliefs, and Gothic, the thirteenth century. In the back of his cap is a long sword and inscription of the year 1231. Is the pilgrimage to Santiago shell, suggesting that these were noble or that any child on the way to Compostela became the monastery, where he met his death.
Outside the apse is remarkable and, in general, the sequence of canecillos cornices. There on the wall right of the apse, the only remaining Romanesque painting of Cantabria with the representation of two apostles.
ORBANEJA DEL CASTILLO
Location:
This town is one of the most beautiful in the province of Burgos. Hung in a series of
terraces of tufa on the left of the narrow canyon of the river Ebro, combine it in the light of
spectacular scenic beauty and popular taste of its buildings. Their main
current focus is tourism, with various accommodation and lodgings where you can
stay to enjoy this wonderful place.
Festivals:
The festivities are primarily in August, along with all the summer to introduce the most similar characteristics. Are organized according to the people in the summer moves to the people they see as its population increases substantially. Many are called genéricamnte summer or the holiday in August, although there are many traditional and deeply rooted in rural areas (ie Assumption of Our Lady or Our Lady of August). Usually last between 3 or four days and includes weekends and some weekday in which it is common to celebrate the Mass for the dead and the only food in town. This kind of festival, although they can be livened by dulzaineros or even orchestras, often based in community meals, and some simple religious act.
Tourism:
The village runs early, and during the winter living there are very few people. In no
time visitors can abstract noise that causes the cascade that starts in the middle
of the town, and it is undisputed protagonist of the urban structure. Crystal waters
sprout at the base of the Cueva del Agua, cave that opens on the rocky Cantil presiding
people, and which divides it into two parts: towns and villages, conditioning the entire life of their
people. This cave, which is part of the interesting complex of karstic Orbaneja, are
Out natural groundwater from an aquifer located in the huge basement of
paramo Bricio. The flow of this upwelling, permanent throughout the year, increases
significantly in times of heavy rain and melting, so that the route of water
jumping from the terrace of different levels of tufa, and build-formed by them, is a
unique and indescribable, especially in spring. Today the cave tour
a guide and you can walk a long way inside. Although it carries no water,
can hear the noise of the nearby water rumbles on the walls. Formerly this flow
served to move the stones of five flour mills distributed to the edge of the cave of
which still remains today. Its waters are rushing about 20 meters towards the Ebro
foam shedding on a pool of crystal water.
In this unique place is one of the best of folk architecture
preserved and most charming of all Castile and Leon. The houses are evident traces
mountain, how could it be otherwise, given the geographical proximity of Cantabria. Homes
are not very high, but its appearance is stylized with the elegant wood solanas
to look old and narrow streets of the village. The houses are so crowded, it seems that
the balconies were suspended in the air. The village, standing on hill, was built
on a few narrow terraces of tufa stone. The abundance of this material, the singles
architecture popular, being used extensively in the building. While the first body
of the buildings being built in limestone masonry, seeking a better isolation of the
humidity, the upper floors have a more uniform and to use due care
of tufa stone, in the form of blocks. The porosity and lightness of this stone, along with its ease
to be worked, make it a very suitable material for building walls
to fill-timbered.
The narrowness of the valley does not give rise to terrazgo. Only a few small orchards are
on the edge of the Ebro traditionally cultivated fields have been located at a higher level than
town. Specifically parameros the surrounding open space and only likely to be flat
tilth despite the climatic and soil. The site, known as the eras of
Orbaneja del Castillo, has a series of stone huts. These structures, plant
circular or square, built in brick with limestone and covered vaulted false,
constitute one of the most interesting sets of architecture popular in the province of Burgos.
Served as a barn for shelter and place in which to take shelter in case of storm.
Within the nucleus, the larger space corresponds to the entrance of the Cueva del Agua,
therefore, from its beginnings, the spring has occupied a central place in Orbaneja and actor.
On a rock jetty at the foot of the source is a drug house that was owned by
Marquises of Aguilar. Other outstanding buildings are the House of Canes and the Casa de los Pobres.
The first derives its name reused for canecillos Romance in its decoration. House
of the Poor, a former hospital in the sixteenth century, with wooden porch and an elegant
network of tufa stone. As to its internal organization, is one of the most
primitive in the region. It consists of a ground floor and the upper blocks with ample space
without kitchen hood, and stay recocina room. From the original square, compartmentalized
the bed of the spring, you can climb a steep path to reach a ledge
calendar from which to admire the magnificent scenery of the canyon of the Ebro Front crowded house, the
right bank of the river appears crowned by a huge set of structures calcareous
who, from the distance, resemble ruins. It is one of the most spectacular examples of
modeling in the karstic canyon. Indeed, the resulting stress evokes forms ruiniforme
fantastic-like ruins, remnants of a castle that no mind has
perpetuated in the name of the people.
History:
In Orbaneja Castle Mozarabic coexisted for centuries, Christians and Jews. Of
presence of the latter and its famous aljama is only in the memory of some names
streets. This place was chosen by the Knights Templar to lift the Convent and Hospital
San Albín responsible for providing shelter and protection to pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago. Is
question of an alternative route called the French way, passing from Saint Martin and Eline
Santa Maria Cervatos. Also, the Catholic Monarchs granted the village to this distinguished
Villa title, so that its inhabitants were exempted from taxes.
Downloaded from www.wikipedia.org/ www.pueblos-espana.org and my personal experience.
Sonia
