Hermitage of San Cristóbal

On the top of the San Cristóbal hill, at an altitude of 571 meters, stands this hermitage from the 15th century, fully restored in 1977.

The entrance is protected by a spacious atrium, to shelter pilgrims and visitors.

 Its long interior space, divided into four sections, is extended on the left side with three empty chapels with independent roofs.

To the left, the buttresses, extended on the outside, shelter three chapels that break the rectangular plan of the hermitage. Two of these had a door in the border wall and everything suggests that they were cells or chapels for hermits.

The hermitage has no sacristy, no choir, and no altars in the chapels. The first chapel, entering to the left, houses a small painting of San Cristóbal, patron saint of all travelers, boatmen and motorists.

Attached to the temple, on the part of the apse, there is another room that can serve as a retreat. We also find a large cistern that collects the river water.

The square with a balcony allows you to look the fertile basin of the Palancia river on its way to the Mediterranean Sea, with the Sierra Calderona Natural Park in the background.

The hermitage is the largest of the three existing in the town.