Logrono Trip Overview
Enjoy a morning full of spirituality visiting one of the most emblematic monasteries of La Rioja!
The monasteries of Yuso and Suso are part of a religious institution founded in the 6th century by San Millán. They were declared World Heritage by UNESCO in 1997. We will pick you up at your hotel / apartment to take you there, and you can visit both monasteries on a visit that lasts approximately 1.5 hours in total.
The first records in Spanish were found in these monasteries! At present it is a convent of friars of the Order of the Augustinian Recoletos. Do not miss the opportunity to discover all the details of these medieval monasteries.
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* Duration: 4 hours
* Starts: Logrono, Spain
* Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Enjoy a morning full of spirituality visiting one of the most emblematic monasteries of La Rioja!
The monasteries of Yuso and Suso are part of a religious institution founded in the 6th century by San Millán. They were declared World Heritage by UNESCO in 1997. We will pick you up at your hotel / apartment to take you there, and you can visit both monasteries on a visit that lasts approximately 1.5 hours in total.
The first records in Spanish were found in these monasteries! At present it is a convent of friars of the Order of the Augustinian Recoletos. Do not miss the opportunity to discover all the details of these medieval monasteries.
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Stop At: Monasterio de Yuso, San Millan de la Cogolla Spain
The monasteries of Yuso and Suso are part of a religious institution founded in the 6th century by San Millán. They were declared World Heritage by UNESCO in 1997. We will pick you up at your hotel / apartment to take you there, and you can visit both monasteries on a visit that lasts approximately 1.5 hours in total.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: San Millan Suso Monastery, San Millan de la Cogolla Spain
constructed between the 6th and 11th centuries, important vestiges remain of the different historic moments it has lived through. The rock caverns in which the hermits lived, the primitive Visigoth coenobium, the Mozarab enlargement and finally, the Romanesque.
Access to the monastery is through the portaello, where the tombs of the infantes de Lara and their tutor Nuño are located, accompanying the three Navarran queens.
Through the Mozarabic arch with alabaster capitals which recall the time of the caliph of Cordoba in the 10th c., decorated with designs depicting plant motifs and geometrical shapes, we enter inside the Mozarabic monastery with three large horseshoe arches. At the back we can see the remains of the primitive Visigoth construction.
The burial cave contains the tomb of the founder from the second half of the 12th c. built of black alabaster and decorated with a recumbent statue, wearing priest’s robes, alb, chasuble and stole with a beautifully worked cross on his chest bearing the decoration of numbers and plants. Nowadays, the Pilgrims’ Way as it passes through la Rioja makes a diversion to the monastery of Yuso where the saint’s remains are kept.
During the Middle Ages it was a centre of political and cultural power. From its important scriptorium came the first written testimony of the Romance Spanish and Basque languages, the glosas emilianenses. Nowadays the Ministry of Culture looks after the monastery
Duration: 30 minutes
