Forget conventional churches and hilltop castles. Under the soil of Arnedo, in La Rioja, hides a logistical nightmare that human beings turned into a masterpiece: the Cave of the 100 Pillars. It is not a natural formation, it is a colossal hand-carved labyrinth that defies the laws of architecture and that few tourists still know about.
What began in the Middle Ages as a spiritual refuge for monks fleeing the world, ended up being an underground city with a thousand faces. Imagine hitting the rock day after day, not to build walls, but to "empty" the mountain with surgical precision, leaving columns of living stone so that the hill would not fall on them. It is the perfect definition of negative architecture: here what matters is the void that is created, not what is raised.
For centuries, this place was the most versatile corner of Spain. What was born as the sacred Monastery of San Miguel ended up being transformed into humble homes, secret warehouses and dark cellars. It is a biography carved in stone that shows us that, when space is lacking outside, human ingenuity always finds a way to colonize the interior of the earth. If you thought you had seen it all in historical heritage, this labyrinth of columns will leave you speechless.
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Mas información: https://www.arnedo.com/events/cueva-de-los-cien-pilares/
Que chulo me encanta, lo apunto para ir algún día
Que guay. Sé que hay construcciones similares en Etiopía pero no sabía que existiese aquí