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What to see and do in San Cristóbal de Boedo

What to see and do in San Cristóbal de Boedo (La Ojeda, Palencia): 2 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments

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Hermitage of Nuestra Señora de la Muela 4.3 km

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What to see and do in San Cristóbal de Boedo

San Cristóbal de Boedo
Village
San Cristóbal de Boedo is one of the smallest municipalities in Palencia, in the La Ojeda comarca, with barely 20 inhabitants at 883 metres of altitude in a municipal area of 10.78 km², compared with the 167 it had in the mid-19th century. Its parish is dedicated to the saints Facundo and Primitivo. Half a league from the village stood the hermitage of Nuestra Señora de la Muela, which was formerly a priory of Benedictine monks.
Hermitage of Nuestra Señora de la Muela
Monument
The hermitage of Nuestra Señora de la Muela lies between Santa Cruz de Boedo and San Cristóbal de Boedo, within the boundaries of the latter municipality, a quarter of a league from the village. Inside it preserves an ultra-semicircular, horseshoe-shaped, pre-Romanesque triumphal arch, which could date from the 10th century, although the reused friezes with Visigothic motifs, similar to those of San Juan de Baños, suggest an earlier existence dating from the 7th century. The site is documented from the early 11th century, in a donation to the monastery of Oña, and everything points to an ancient pre-Christian or Christian sanctuary, next to an abundant spring and close to the Roman road that linked Pisoraca with Carrión de los Condes. It was a priory of Benedictine monks before becoming a rural shrine.