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Architecture and monuments / Asturian pre-Romanesque, Visigoth and Mozarabic / San Millán de la Cogolla

Suso Monastery in San Millán de la Cogolla

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Interior of Suso Monastery in San Millán de la Cogolla. San Millán de la Cogolla, La Rioja © Turespaña

Category

Monasteries and seminaries

Date

Siglo VI

Style

Visigothic

Zona Monasterios
26326 San Millán de la Cogolla
La Rioja

Telephone+34 941373082

Fax+34 941373082

E-mailturismosanmillan@najera.net

Websitehttp://www.monasteriodesanmillan.com/suso/index.html

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Together with the Monastery of Yuso, it has been declared UNESCO World Heritage.

Suso Monastery was the setting for the first words of Castilian Spanish and also the first poems in the language.

The cenobium, which is the monastery’s nucleus, is Visigoth, built in the year 550, making it one of Spain’s oldest. San Millán did his lent penance in its caves. In the 10^th century it was inhabited by Mozarab monks and the horseshoe arch in its main doorway and the square chapels inside date from this period. The building has two naves, separated by horseshoe arches. In 964 the Iberian Peninsula’s first encyclopaedic dictionary was written: the Emilianense 46 Codex. In the 13^th century, Gonzalo de Berceo wrote the first poems in the Spanish language. His remains lie in the Romanesque chapel.