{"id":9289,"date":"2018-12-03T11:57:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/lugar\/hermitage-of-the-archangel-saint-michael-alto\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T10:58:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T10:58:39","slug":"hermitage-of-the-archangel-saint-michael-alto","status":"publish","type":"lugar","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/lugar\/hermitage-of-the-archangel-saint-michael-alto\/","title":{"rendered":"San Miguel Arc\u00e1ngel Hermitage"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hermitage of the Archangel St. Michael (Ermita del Arc\u00e1ngel San Miguel), like so many Christian buildings, was raised in 1673 by Archbishop Diego Escolano on an ancient Arab tower called Del Aceituno that closed the Nasrid wall of Granada<\/a>. Next to it there was a fountain and a “prodigious” and tireless olive tree, celebrated by the Arab authors, which bore fruit and ripened every day.<\/p>\n

The original church was enlarged in 1753 but was destroyed during the French occupation in 1812. It was then rebuilt by the Archbishopric in different phases, the last in 1883.<\/p>\n

The archangel is taken out on the Sunday following September 29 in a very popular picturesque pilgrimage. This tradition is still in force, despite the fact that temporarily the Archbishopric decided at the time to suspend the parade because of comments about the widespread sexual ambivalence of the image that Lorca describes in detail in the ‘Gypsy Ballads’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Pilgrimage of Saint Michael, in the Albayc\u00edn district in Granada.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From its location, on the promontory that crowns the Albayc\u00edn<\/a>, there are impressive panoramic views of the city and the villages lying to the south and west. At the back and side of the hermitage begin the ravines that flow into the Sacromonte<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Its connection with Lorca, however, is based on the androgynous statue of the archangel Saint Michael that is kept in its chapel and to which Lorca dedicated one of his best-known poems of the Gypsy Ballads<\/em><\/a> written during the summer of 1926 in Lanjar\u00f3n<\/a> and the Huerta de San Vicente (San Vicente Farmhouse)<\/a>. The carving, sculpted by Bernardo Francisco de Mora in 1675, represents a delicate celestial being clad in lace and feathers who steps on a grotesque devil and also threatens him with a soft gesture with a kind of golden lancet.<\/p>\n

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Pilgrimage of St. Michael, leaving his hermitage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The archangel is always taken out on the Sunday after September 29th in a very popular picturesque pilgrimage, in which colorful balloons are thrown into the sky and autumn fruits are consumed, through the hill of Aceituno and the Albayc\u00edn. In a way, it is the antithesis of the procession of the Virgen de las Angustias, patron saint of the city, which parades on the last Sunday of September. At the time, the Archbishopric decided to suspend the parade because of comments about the widespread sexual ambivalence of the image that Lorca describes in detail in his poem.<\/span> However, the tradition has been recovered and the pilgrimage continues to be held.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9292,"template":"","inters_del_lugar":[118],"ruta":[64],"class_list":["post-9289","lugar","type-lugar","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","inters_del_lugar-complementary","ruta-route-of-granada"],"trid":"187","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lugar\/9289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lugar"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lugar"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"inters_del_lugar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inters_del_lugar?post=9289"},{"taxonomy":"ruta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ruta?post=9289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}