2014-09-10 Puente Arenas, Ermita de San Pedro de Tejada, Burgos, Spain

The primitive monastery of San Pedro de Tejada was founded in the year 850, in the time of King Ordoño of Leon and ruling Castile, count Don Rodrigo. Thirty religious were the first to inhabit the monastery, its first Abbot was Rodamio. The monastery of San Pedro de Tejada was in its early days the most important of the Merindades, it left the monks who later founded the monastery of Oña, which eventually would reach more history and splendor. This shift Valdivielso Valley remains almost today day, somewhat away from the main routes.
This is one of the churches before romanesque times that has best and is almost intact, without attachments. It's a perfect construction, keep a resemblance to examples of San Quirce Burgos and Santa María monastery of knee Valley. The temple is dated in the beginning of the 12th century, and very refined Romanesque. Its beautiful cover is open on the western façade. The ship has three stages that ends in a semicircular apse. In the section immediately to the apse rises a robust and at the same time elegant Tower of 17 meters in height, which is the total length of the building. It also highlights the fine sculptural work that appears on the corbels and capitals of the temple.
JV