Fw: Somport Route and the The Grail of the Last Supper

[Rosina Lila]

The most beautiful and impressive of those places, (for some of us, the most
beautiful and impressive in the Camino and elsewhere), is the San Juan de la
Pena Monastery.  It is carved out of the rock on the cliffs of a very high
mountain, near the top,  and it is breathtaking. It shouldn't be missed.
Relatively few pilgrims make the small detour from Santa Cruz de los Seros,
though.
That is a pity because the monastery is simply stunning.
Legend has it that St. Lawrence sent the  Holy Grail (chalice) from Jerusalem
to his hometown in Spain, and that when the Muslims occupied that part of the
country the chalice was hidden in the Monastery. The monastery dates back to
the year 920 A.D., and for three centuries it was a stronghold of the
Christian forces holding off the Muslims.