Cova de Sant Jaume
A cave chapel inside a walled rock shelter, in La Granja d'Escarp, south-facing and with several niches inside.
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Cova de Sant Jaume
A cave chapel inside a walled rock shelter, in La Granja d'Escarp, south-facing and with several niches inside.
Granja d'Escarp, La · Segrià
Length: 5 m
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A cave chapel inside a walled rock shelter, in La Granja d'Escarp, south-facing and with several niches inside.
Topographic
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Description
Morphology
The cave chapel is south-facing and measures about 9 metres wide by 5.20 m deep and about 2 m high. Outside, a stone wall joined with mortar runs along the whole cavity, with the door as the only opening.
On the west side there are remains of a stretch of wall that closed the enclosure, which made use of a space of 3 by 2 m and about 1.50 m high.
Speleothems
Inside, in front of the door, one can see an altar-niche 1 metre wide, 1.20 high and about 80 cm deep. On the east side there are two niches of 40 by 50 cm and beside the door another niche of about 30 by 30 cm.
History
This elevated spot, from which one enjoys good panoramas both towards the west and towards the north where the confluence of the Segre and the Cinca can be seen, and near the ravine of the torrent de sant Jaume, offered a good place for eremitic life, as corroborated by the various niches inside the cavity. It seems that the lands of this cave were attributed miraculous and healing properties.
It is said that this spot could be related to a Camí de Sant Jaume that went up along the Ebre and the Segre until it met the Saragossa road, branching off through La Granja d'Escarp and Massalcoreig.
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Bibliography
- Aymamí, Gener (2014).-Itineraris per les esglésies i els eremitoris rupestres de Catalunya. pp 159-160. Rafael Dalmau editor. Barcelona
- Dades extretes del blog de Gener Aymamí (†), post del dia 27-06-2018 (trogloditisme.blogspot.com)
- Dades extretes del blog de Jordi de Valles, post del dia 20-09-2018 (cavitatsdecatalunya.blogspot.com.es).
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