Santuario de Loyola

Today: Santuario y basílica de Loyola, Azpeitia

Place: Azpeitia
Kind: Church
Built: 1689 to 1767
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The sanctuary the Jesuits built around the birthplace of Ignatius of Loyola, to a design by Carlo Fontana. The first stone was laid on 28 March 1689; the church and the south wing were finished in 1738, with a circular basilica under a dome 65 m high, and the north wing was built from 1760 to 1767. It is still a place of worship and of spiritual exercises, and its Museo Sacro (sacred museum) occupies the north wing.

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