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Valleys Seven The Calahorra St. James's Way, Way, James's St. MADRID LOGROÑO Scenery of interest of Scenery Monastery Historical Bridge Historical Convent / to BURGOS to Nájera de la Calzada la de Santo Domingo Santo FRANCE Golf Course Golf Natural Resources Natural Castle or Fortification or Castle SPAIN to PAMPELUNE to Haro PORTUGAL Wine tourism Wine Gas Station Gas Archaeological heritage Archaeological BILBAO to VITORIA to Madrid LA RIOJA LA Restaurant Camping Museum / Interpretation center Interpretation / Museum A-1 Barcelone LA RIOJA LA Zaragoza A-68 Church, chapel Church, Rural house Rural Tourism Office Tourism Burgos Pamplona A-12 Picturesque view Picturesque St. James's Way Way James's St. Hotel Lodging Hotel FRANCE Bilbao PICTOGRAMME Discover Information: The most unique and remarkable fact about the monasteries of San Millán de la Cogolla San Millán de la Cogolla SAN MILLÁN FOUNDATION is that this is where the first sentences were written, that have been found, in the Ro- Portales, 2. 26001 Logroño. Telf.: 941 28 76 85 Going up the Najerilla River and its tributary, the Cárdenas River, mance language that in the present day is known as Castilian or Spanish. www.fsanmillan.es • [email protected] in the foothills of the Mountain of La Demanda, below the peaks of There, in the 11th century, around 1040, someone who was either a student or a prea- the San Lorenzo Mountain that are covered with snow in winter and CILENGUA cher, was having difficulty understanding certain expressions of the Latin text he was Plaza del Convento s/n. 26226 San Millán de la Cogolla. Telf. 941 37 33 89 are the highest in La Rioja (2,262 metros), we find San Millán de la reading (Latin was the cultured language used for writing, but people communicated www.cilengua.es • [email protected] Cogolla, the main cultural landmark in La Rioja, declared a World in vulgar Latin, in an “unrefined” Latin, which would later become Spanish), did what Heritage Site in 1997. has always been normal: next to the expression that seemed obscure, he wrote another one to translate it and make it understandable. The municipality was named after Saint Emilianus, a hermit who lived from 473 to 574, the founder of the Suso community, which The text or codex that the glossator was would later lead to the formation of one of the most important cultural reading is the one known as Aemilia- focal points of the medieval period in the Peninsula. Around that time, nenses 60, and the explanatory notes are at this site, there was a church called San Jorge, from the 7th and known as the Glosses of Saint Emilianus. 8th centuries, with a Visigoth design, which is still preserved in the Of these notes, the ones written in the present time at the town entrance, next to the Cárdenas River, and Romance language were, until recently, Paragliders over Berceo. Hall of the Monastery of Yuso. Chest of San Millán de Yuso. is considered to be one of La Rioja’s oldest consecrated churches. considered to be the earliest written re- Nowadays it is known as the Chapel of Santa Potamia. shops that were eventually turned into homes over time. The most cord of the Castilian romance langua- ge. In addition, glossaries or dictionaries isolated quarter is “Lugar del Río”, located 2 km away, upstream visiting Wineries are also being studied, which represent The town is made up of three quarters. The oldest quarter is the one of the Cárdenas, which is a tranquil and calm place surrounded by an authentic philological work about the Badarán traditionally known as “Santurde” which, according to data from meadows, poplar groves, and classical mountain imagery. evolution of Latin into Spanish. On the way to San Millán coming from Nájera is where the last the monastery archives, already existed in the 9th century. After the vineyards are located, near the mountain area, where the climate is construction of the Monastery of Yuso, the town started to expand However, this area is not only a first-rate religious and cultural The first words written in Basque have no longer suitable for grapevine cultivation. In Badarán, visitors will in the direction of the monastery, thereby forming another quarter, place, but it also offers visitors the chance to enjoy one of the also been found in the same codex 60, find, in addition to the delicioussausage and bread, an excellent known as “Barrionuevo”. most interesting scenic and natural environments in La Rioja, with written in San Millán de la Cogolla. wine and wineries that offer tours, such as David Moreno, with a wide its dense forests and snow-covered peaks. There are numerous range of wine tourism options, for both groups as well as individuals. Around Yuso, different buildings were constructed, which were trails throughout the area surrounding San Millán de la Cogolla Glosses of Saint Emilianus. associated with it, such as the old monastery hospital, mills, and and other nearby towns. Monastery of Suso. Cloister of San Millán de Yuso. Gonzalo de Berceo Since the first written embodiment of the Spanish language was produced between the Emilian walls, then the same language earned the status of a poe- tic language and thus, of universality, without the need to change locations, because the first poet with a name, personality and complete work known in the Spanish language came from the same valley of San Millán: Gonzalo de Berceo. If Codex 46, which was completed at the monastery of the Cogolla on June 13th of the year 964, mar- ked the beginning of written Spanish, then Gonzalo de Berceo, who lived and wrote mainly in the first half of the 13th century, marked the beginning of Spanish literature. This is the reason why San Millán is important for knowing the origins of the Spanish language and literature. Monument to Gonzalo de Berceo. Monastery of Suso Monastery of Yuso The Monastery of San Millán de Suso ("Suso" from the Latin The origin of the monastery's construction is reflected in a legend "sursum" means “up”) came out of the caves where the hermit that explains how King García of Nájera ordered the transfer of disciples of Saint Emilianus lived, in the 6th century, around the the remains of Saint Emilianus, which were located in Suso, to the cave that held his remains. The expansion that continued until the monastery of Santa María La Real of Nájera. The oxen that were 12th century turned those caves into a cenobium and a monastery. pulling the wagon stopped in the valley as if the remains of the saint Among the different architectural styles that were increasingly did not want to abandon him, and thus, the monastery of Yuso was overlapping between the 6th and 11th centuries, the following built at that site. This is a Romanesque monastery from the 10th can be observed: Visigothic, Mozarabic and Romanesque. and 11th centuries, upon which the current monastery of Yuso was built by the Benedictine abbots between the 16th and 18th centuries. In the early days of the arrival of the Visigoths in the Peninsula, It has a combination of styles: mainly Renaissance and Baroque. the anchorite Aemilianus (Emilianus), the son of a shepherd The Benedictine monks moved to the monastery in the 10th century. and native of Vergegium, modern-day Berceo, withdrew to this One of the most important priors was Dominic, originally from the place. He lived here in seclusion until his death, at the age of 101, View of Suso. Riojan town of Cañas, better known as Saint Dominic of Silos. and was buried in a tomb dug out of rock. We know about his Sacristy of Yuso. life thanks to the account written in the year 635 by the bishop In 1030, Sancho III, the Great restored and expanded the monastery The façade of the monastery's entrance was made in 1661, and the of Zaragoza, named Braulio, and translated into Spanish by and added two more semicircular arches to the existing horseshoe relief of Saint Emilianus the "Moor-slayer" appears on it, because The church of the monastery was the first part of this entire complex Gonzalo de Berceo, who was educated there.