San Millan de la Corolla

Those who are looking for an alternate activity to wine tasting should head to the small town of San Millan de la Cogolla. Located approximately 25 miles from the capital city of Logrono, the village takes its name from Saint Emilanus (San Millán) a 6th-century saint who sought refuge in a hermitage dug into a rock. The most famous attractions here are the twin monasteries, Yuso and Suso, which were declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO and house manuscripts that contain the first written words of Castilian Spanish, known as the Glosas Emilianenses. This name was given to the first notes in Castilian and Basque, which the transcribers jotted in the margins when they had trouble understanding the Latin text.

Yuso is the larger of the two monasteries and was built in the 16^th and 17^th centuries. The much older Suso monastery was the site of Millán’s burial before he was sanctified in 1030 and later transferred to Yuso.