The sanctuary and basilica of Loyola is a Baroque religious complex built around the birthplace of Ignacio de Loyola (1491-1556), founder of the Society of Jesus, known as the Jesuit. When, in the 17th century, the tower house where he was born was given to the Jesuits, they began to build a religious complex there. The current sanctuary was built in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The Sanctuary Our Lady of Aranzazu is a Marian Catholic shrine located in Oñate, in the state of Guipúzcoa, where the Virgin of Aranzazu (patroness of the province) appeared in 1469. The building, built in the 50s, is the work of famous Spanish modernist architects such as Luis Laorga and Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza.
The old collegiate church of Zenarruza dates from the 10th century. Legend has it that on the day of the Assumption, in 968, an eagle took a skull from an open tomb and carried it away until it dropped it on the place where the church of Cenarruza is nowadays. At the end of the 14th century, the increase in the importance of the Compostela Way on which the church stands led to the constitution of a collegiate council in what was until then a parish. Thus Cenarruza was erected as a collegiate church in 1379. The collegiate church existed until it was reduced by the Concordat of 1851. After decades of dilapidation, in the 1980s the church was restored. Currently, it is a priory of the Cistercian Order of Close Observance.
The church of San Pedro was built during the second half of the 18th century in a baroque style, particularly visible on the tower. The building was restored in 1991.
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