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Hermitage of Villasfrías

Vegas del Condado, Tierras de León, León

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Hermitage of Villasfrías

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The Villasfrías hermitage, in Villanueva del Condado (Vegas del Condado), has its origin in the old settlement of San Salvador de Villafría, located several hundred metres south of its current site, where the municipal sports centre stands today. The monks of the monastery of San Cosme y San Damián de Abellar, founded in 905, established a decania there in 953 to administer their estate, with a small chapel, their residence and the houses of the servants and tenant farmers who worked the land; the foundations of these buildings came to light when the ground was cleared for the sports facilities. Already mentioned by Madoz as the site of a very well-attended romería on Easter Tuesday, the hermitage remains the devotional centre of the whole Porma valley.

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