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What to see and do in Sotresgudo

What to see and do in Sotresgudo (Odra-Pisuerga, Burgos): 4 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 2 Nature

How far each place is from the centre of Sotresgudo

The Romanesque hermitage of San Cristóbal 800 m
Peña Amaya 8.8 km

Towns near Sotresgudo

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What to see and do in Sotresgudo

Sotresgudo
Village
Municipality in the Odra-Pisuerga district, in Burgos, made up of nine minor local entities —among them Amaya, Cuevas de Amaya, Salazar de Amaya, Sotovellanos and Guadilla de Villamar— which merged with the head town in 1973; it totals 413 inhabitants. Its territory reaches 1,350 metres at the Peña Amaya and drops to 853 at Guadilla de Villamar, while the town centre of Sotresgudo sits at 874 m. Its church of San Miguel, from the 16th century, preserves a Romanesque doorway and an altarpiece attributed to Juan de Valmaseda, founder of the Palencia school of sculpture.
Peña Amaya
Nature
The limestone mass rises to 1,350 metres above the plain and commands half the north of the province. On its summit and slopes the remains of the Cantabrian city and of the fortress that succeeded it are superimposed.
The Las Loras Global Geopark
Nature
The Las Loras Geopark, included in the Unesco European Geoparks Network on 5 May 2017 as the eleventh in Spain, extends across sixteen municipalities of Burgos and Palencia, among them Sotresgudo. It covers 95,076 hectares of limestone highlands separated by river canyons, with notable geological interest that includes karst formations, canyons such as that of the Alto Ebro and the Rudrón, faults, and former oil fields such as that of Ayoluengo. Its natural sites include Covalagua, Las Tuerces and the Horadada canyon, and among its cultural sites, Iron Age settlements such as Monte Bernorio, Monte Cildá and Peña Amaya, the latter right next to the municipal boundary of Sotresgudo itself. Nearly a third of the municipality is included in the Natura 2000 Network.
The Romanesque hermitage of San Cristóbal
Monument
The hermitage of San Cristóbal is a small Romanesque temple, built around the year 1200 in an isolated, elevated spot near Sotresgudo. It has a single nave of masonry, a semicircular apse with round-arched windows —one decorated with the heads of figures and devils—, a cornice of corbels with geometric motifs and human figures, and a portal with four plain archivolts; inside, the columns of the triumphal arch show human heads and confronted lions, and it houses a Mannerist altarpiece from the early 17th century. It is the municipality's Romanesque piece alongside the church of San Miguel, from the 16th century, with an altarpiece attributed to Juan de Valmaseda, founder of the Palencia school. Every 10 July, at the end of the Mass of San Cristóbal, vehicles are blessed in the main square.