If the stones could speak, they could tell us stories of houses, farmhouses, palaces, churches and walls built with the sweat of their inhabitants generation after generation.
Markina-Xemein Historical Hull
Culturan heritage
Immerse yourself in the narrow streets of the medieval old town. Admire the palaces and Gothic towers
The hermitage is located next to the Camino de Santiago, where the rivers Artibai and Urko meet. It is notable for its three giant stones that occupy the whole of the chapel, creating a kind of chapel.
In the gardens of the house, today the site of the Lea-Artibai education centre, you can visit the monument to Moguel, the work of the sculptor Xiri Andonegi, which represents some typographic forms with a message that corresponds to a passage from the work "Peru abarka".
It was founded in 1691. It was the work of Ignacio de Munibe y Axpe, abbot of the Collegiate Church of Ziortza. In 1808 the convent was suppressed and turned into barracks for the French troops.
The Antxia Tower is located in the historic quarter of Markina-Xemein. It is a construction with an approximately quadrangular ground plan and a parallelepiped volume, with overhanging wooden eaves and a hipped roof.