Olleros de Pisuerga
PalenciaCastilla y León
Romance compound. Olleros, derived from olla ('ceramic vessel') with professional suffix -eros, designates 'makers of pots, potters'. De Pisuerga places the town on the eponymous river.
Town with documented medieval pottery tradition. Famous for the rupestrian church of Saints Justus and Pastor, excavated in the limestone rock between the 7th and 12th centuries, one of the few preserved pre-Romanesque rupestrian temples in Spain.
Evolution of the name
- ollarius late Latin 5th–9th centuries
- Olleros medieval Castilian from the 11th century
Glossary
- Olleros rupestrian church
- Early medieval Christian temple excavated in the limestone crag of Olleros de Pisuerga (Palencia) between the 7th and 12th centuries, in uninterrupted process of expansion. It preserves basilical plan of three naves separated by columns carved in the parent rock, eastern square apses and 10th-century Mozarabic mural paintings. It is one of the most extensive pre-Romanesque rupestrian ensembles in Spain.
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