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Hermitage of Veladíez

Espirdo, Alfoz de Segovia, Segovia

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Hermitage of Veladíez

Monument · Espirdo, Alfoz de Segovia, Segovia

The ermita of Nuestra Señora de Veladíez stands on a hilltop lookout 1,400 metres southwest of Espirdo, in the former deserted hamlet of Veladíez, from which the remains of at least 51 Visigothic graves excavated in 1944 survive, along with the oral tradition placing the burial of the Visigothic king Witerico there. The place name Vela Díaz already appears documented in 1247, in a parchment from the Segovia cathedral archive. The building, Romanesque and single-naved, in good condition, preserves a splayed window to the west, a corbelled cornice to the north and its characteristic round-arched porch topped by a two-bell gable; its romería, on the first Sunday of May, is the oldest festival in the municipality.

Photo: Arturo Francisco Barbero (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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