Monasteries of San Millán de la Cogolla

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UNESCO World Heritage Site in La Rioja, Spain

San Millán Yuso and Suso MonasteriesUNESCO World Heritage Site

San Millán de Suso

Location| San Millán de la Cogolla, La Rioja, Spain
Includes|

1. Yuso Monastery and Monastic Kitchen Gardens
2. Suso Monastery and Archaeological Sites

Criteria| Cultural: (ii), (iv), (vi)
Reference| 805
Inscription| 1997 (21st Session)
Area| 19.01 ha (47.0 acres)
Buffer zone| 266.24 ha (657.9 acres)
Website| www.monasteriodesanmillan.com
Coordinates| 42°19′33″N 2°51′54″W﻿ / ﻿42.32583°N 2.86500°W﻿ / 42.32583; -2.86500

Spanish Cultural Heritage

Official name| Monasterios de Yuso y Suso
Type| Real property
Criteria| Monument

Location of Monasteries of San Millán de la Cogolla in La Rioja, Spain

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Monasteries of San Millán de la Cogolla (Spain)

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The monasteries of San Millán de Suso (6th century) and San Millán de Yuso (11th century) are two monasteries situated in the village of San Millán de la Cogolla, La Rioja, Spain. They have been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO since December 1997.[1]

The two monasteries' names Suso and Yuso mean the "upper" and the "lower" in archaic Castilian, respectively. Suso is the older building and is believed to be built on the site of a hermitage where Saint Emilian (Spanish: San Millán) lived. Perhaps Suso's major claim to fame is as the place where phrases in the Spanish and Basque languages were written for the first time.[2] UNESCO acknowledges the property "as the birthplace of the modern written and spoken Spanish language".[1] The phrases in Spanish and Basque are glosses on a Latin text and are known as the Glosas Emilianenses. There is some debate as to whether the Spanish words are written in an early form of Castilian (Spanish), or in a similar early form of Navarro-Aragonese (ancestor to modern Aragonese). In either case, San Millán's importance as a cradle of the Spanish language is reinforced by the proximity of the village of Berceo which is associated with Gonzalo de Berceo, the first Spanish poet known by name.

## History

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There is a continuous history of Christianity at San Millán since the time of the saint. The scriptorium produced the second phase of the San Millán Beatus and remained active during the period of Muslim rule; and over the centuries, the religious community has overcome various vicissitudes which affected the monasteries (for example being sacked by the Black Prince). However the type of monastic life evolved: the original monks living at Suso were hermits, but Yuso, the refoundation of the monastery on a lower site, developed as a Benedictine community. As the UNESCO evaluation noted, San Millán shows the transformation from an eremitic to a cenobitic community in material terms.[3]

Suso monastery has been uninhabited since the expropriation of monastic property in the 19th century. Such expropriations were widespread in Spain, and are often called the ecclesiastical confiscations of Mendizábal, but at San Millan the process began in the 1820s during the Trienio Liberal, a decade before the government of Juan Álvarez Mendizábal.[2] Yuso monastery was abandoned at the same time, but was reoccupied by an Augustinian community.

## The monasteries today

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Today part of the monastery has been converted into a hotel. San Millán attracts pilgrims on the Way of St James (even though it lies somewhat off the line of the official route between Nájera and Burgos).[4][5]

* Processional cloister. Yuso Monastery.

* Mozarabic arches in the Suso Monastery.

## See also

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* Sonsierra

## Notes

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1. ^ a b "San Millán Yuso and Suso Monasteries". UNESCO. 1997. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
2. ^ a b Ayuso, Ana (2023). "El códice "robado" del siglo X con los primeros textos en español y euskera que La Rioja reclama al Gobierno" (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 August 2024.
3. ^ Entry on the World Heritage website.
4. ^ route map
5. ^ (in Spanish) Cervantes Centre

## References

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to San Millán de la Cogolla.

* http://www.monasteriodeyuso.org (in Spanish)
* w:es:Monasterio de San Millán de Suso
* w:es:Monasterio de San Millán de Yuso

## External links

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* Explore the San Millán Yuso and Suso Monasteries (La Rioja, Spain) in the UNESCO collection on Google Arts and Culture

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