Ermita de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios, Hermitage church in Colmenar Viejo, Spain.
The Ermita de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios is a small hermitage church outside Colmenar Viejo, standing along the road toward Guadalix de la Sierra. The building is made of stone, modest in size, and set in an open stretch of land away from the town.
The chapel was built in stages over several centuries, with the main phases of construction in the 14th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Near the site stands a stone stele with Latin inscriptions from Roman times, originally used to mark territorial limits.
The hermitage is dedicated to a figure that people in the area have long turned to for healing and protection. On certain feast days, locals walk out from town to reach it, giving the visit a devotional and communal feel that is still alive today.
The site can be reached on foot from the town center along walking paths, which takes around half an hour. It is worth checking locally before heading out, as the building is not always open to visitors.
Two graves carved directly into the rock on the site come from a Visigothic necropolis, showing the ground was used for burials about a thousand years ago. One of these tombs sits inside the chapel itself, which is easy to miss without looking closely at the floor.
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