Visigothic kingdom

San Pedro de Rocas

Today: Esgos, Spain

Years
585–711

A complex cut into the rock of Mount Barbeirón, in the Ribeira Sacra of Ourense, held to be the oldest monastery in Galicia. It began in the Suebic kingdom: an inscription of 573, now in the provincial archaeological museum of Ourense, names five of its monks, and it is linked to Martin of Braga. It passed into the Visigothic kingdom with the rest of the northwest in 585 and was abandoned early in the 8th century; in the 9th it became a monastery again, and stayed one until the 19th.

What to see today

Get directions

Google Maps Waze

Open in the map Read more on Wikipedia

by Phantazein

We count visits ourselves, with no cookies and nothing stored on your device. To count people rather than clicks, we keep a one-way code derived from your connection and browser for at most 48 hours and then delete it; what remains is totals per page that identify no one. We never store your IP. We also use Plausible, analytics hosted in the European Union that likewise sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device, to learn which sites send readers here and how many searches are run, never what is searched for.