San Millan Yuso and Suso Monasteries, Spain - UNESCO World Heritage Site
Place: San Millan, Spain
Weather: Considerable cloudiness, 42/63F.
Route: From Burgos 88 km on N-120.
Significance: St Millan was a 6th century aesthetic monk, who started a monastery in a cave, and whose followers built first a small church near the cave and then a in the 16th century a larger monastery below the cave. The cave is still a popular place for pilgrims. The first books on record in the Castilian language, predecessor of modern Spanish, were found here.
The small monastery of Suso built into the cave (from whc.unesco.org)
The larger Yuso monastery below in the valley built in the 16th century (from whc.unesco.org)
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