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The first monument are located
pilgrims walk the Camino de Santiago on entering the village
Castrojeriz are the ruins of General Hospital or St Anton
San Antonio Abad.
San Anton was the king's palace and Huerta
Pedro I of Castile and later embraced by the order of
the Anthony, which was disbanded at the end of the eighteenth century. The
problem of the Confiscation of the nineteenth century devoted his ruin
final.
This monastery was under the protection
real, it is demonstrating the existence of the actual shields
portico of the church and the keys to the vaults. Founded
by Alfonso VII in 1146 but the leftovers from
this impressive building of the XIV century.
The
Camino de Santiago passes under the two arches of the portico
century high XVI protecting the entrance to the church,
ornamented with a cover of archivolts, fully furnished
with sculptures in each of its segments. You can still
distinguish the two cabinets that were carried out on the porch for
food of the pilgrims arriving at odd hours.
In the church, which was three naves, was practiced
cure of the "evil of fire or fire of St. Anthony," a disease
widespread in the Middle Ages, caused by eating cereal
ergot fungus developed in the Rye.
Reconstruction of the monastery of San Anton
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