San Pedro de Rocas

Today: Iglesia rupestre de San Pedro de Rocas, Esgos

Place: San Pedro de Rocas (Esgos)
Kind: Church
Built: c. 551 to 600
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit · In situ

Three chapels opening off the hillside, cut into the rock, with barrel vaults, arches and capitals carved from the same stone and, in the central one, an opening in the roof that lets the light in. Its dating is disputed: they have been read as the chapels of the first community of the 6th century, and a study of 2021 dates the hermits' cells cut into the rock around them, and the relic cavity that the inscription of 573 covered, from the second half of that century, but puts the cutting of the chapels in the 9th and 10th. The church built against them, with its wall painting of a map of the world, is Romanesque, and the priory house holds an interpretation centre.

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