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Templar hermitage of Saint Bartholomew of Ucero. Rio Lobos Canyon, Soria, Spain. Full pano.

The 12th-Century hermitage of Saint Bartholomew (San Bartolomé) in north-central Spain is a masterpiece of Templar symbolism, a chapel built in an area that has drawn spiritual seekers since the Bronze Age.

Situated equidistantly from the Iberian Peninsula’s easternmost and westernmost points in a remote corner of the Rio Lobos Canyon, the site has long held significance to local inhabitants and was carefully chosen by the Knights Templar for its spiritual properties. In a nearby limestone cave, Ancient Romans celebrated Mundus Patet (the “festival of the dead”) and prayed to the Cult of the Mother Goddess in the cave behind the trees to the right of the temple. According to the legend, this is where Bartholomew the Apostle (San Bartolomé) dropped his sword from atop a nearby mountain, declaring wherever the weapon fell to be his home in the 1st Century AD.

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