Description
ThePalrestre oratorio de Valdecanaslocated 6 km from the population, dates from the Visigoda period (7th century) and is the only known example in the southern peninsular. It was discovered by Rafael Vañó Silvestre in 1968. It is located on the hill of the Alcobilla, between Zagahón and near the Giribola swamp, in a natural environment conducive to enjoying both the monument and the landscape. It is a hipigee made up of three caves excavated in the rock.
It is a hipogee that consists of three caves excavated in the rock, of which the major has a monumental facade simulating a porch in the form of blind arches, with horseshoe arches and eardrums decorated with palmetas of classical tradition, all carved in the slope of the ground. Inside there is a three-ship chapel with canyon vaults on square pilasters. The other two caves, of simpler resolution, had to serve one as the residence of the monks who lived in the oratory, and the other possibly as Baptistery.
It was declared Good of Cultural Interest in 1970.
Another place of worship or visible cenobium existing in the municipal term Rus, 12 km from the village, is the recently located "Cueva de la Veguilla."
