The church or hermitage of San Miguel is a Catholic temple in a state of ruin located in the municipality of Sacramenia, in the province of Segovia. The ruins are situated at an altitude of 923 m above sea level on a rise of land that overlooks the town.
The building is a single-story structure with a semicircular apse. Its construction is in a rural popular Romanesque style and is dated to around the 12th or 13th centuries, although it has been tentatively proposed that a previous church was founded on the same site as early as the 10th century. During the Modern Age, reforms were carried out on the building between the 16th and 18th centuries.
The preserved columns of the church feature both historiated and vegetal ornamentation. The church was declared a historical-artistic monument by Royal Decree on February 16, 1983, and is listed as a Red List heritage element from 2007-2015.
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Written by Nicolo Ciampini
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