Ermita de San Miguel Alto
Hilltop hermitage on a Muslim tower site, home to a saint carried down in an annual autumn pilgrimage.
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This guide to the Ermita de San Miguel Alto in Granada opens with a question: why does an entire Albaicín neighborhood carry a carved saint down this hill and back up every year? It traces the hermitage's site atop a former Muslim tower and olive-tree mosque, the Baroque chapel raised in 1671, its demolition by Napoleon's troops, and the neighborhood's rebuilding of it by 1816. The saint himself, a Baroque-era carving by the sculptor Bernardo de Mora, has kept watch from this hilltop for most of the year ever since.
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