Church of Nuestra Señora de la Peña de Faido

The Virgen de la Peña hermitage, located in Faido, is regarded as one of the oldest Christian churches best preserved in Euskadi in these days. It's been declared a National Monument.

It was built in an artificial cave dating from the Middle Ages, exactly in the second stock of the Kruzia caves. The building falls into two parts: the lobby (inside a building incrusted in the rock) and the temple itself (excavated into the rock).

The entrance to the lobby is reached going through an arch. Inside, we'll find a mural representing the Stations of the Cross. Getting into the rock, we'll enter a temple built taking advantage of a former pre-Romanesque hermitage.

The altarpiece is of white rock (built in the 18th century). An image of the Virgen de la Peña, dating from the 13th-14th centuries, is kept there.