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Pico Sacro

Boqueixón, Santiago, A Coruña

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Pico Sacro

Nature · Boqueixón, Santiago, A Coruña

The Pico Sacro is a peculiarly shaped mountain in the parish of Granxa, in Boqueixón, cited as Mons Illicinus in the Codex Calixtinus for its role in the story of the transfer of the body of the apostle St James to Galicia. It is a 533-metre quartz vein, isolated from other mountains, whose pointed shape stands out above the river Ulla. Its ridge is divided by a ditch, probably artificial, called the Rúa da Raíña Lupa; at the summit the foundations of a fortress rebuilt by Archbishop Fonseca in 1473 are still visible. A narrow cave runs through the summit, and Jacobean tradition places there a dragon guarding an entrance to hell. Below the summit stands the hermitage of San Sebastián, founded in the 10th century as a Benedictine cenoby by Sisnando I. A pilgrimage with mass is held at the hermitage every 20 January.

Photo: Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lmbuga) (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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