Returning again Bermeo-Bakio road, which would continue until our last visit of the Biscay coast: San Juan de Gaztelugatxe. The site of extraordinary natural beauty, is also center of pilgrimage for the bold who dare to zigzagging Via Crucis climbs you, after two hundred-odd steps up a hermitage in balancing tightrope walker on the sandstone and limestone cliffs. I got one leg pretending to each photo scenic and allow me to catch his breath, but the natives, more accustomed to mountaineering feats have become famous for some of his countrymen, stood with the same nonchalance with which attack their Sunday stroll ... What a country ...
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| View of the staircase from the chapel |
At the summit, around the church, small groups of infants disciplined singing songs in Euskera community under the supervision of mothers, and comply with the tradition of bell that drives away evil spirits ... I do not know if those that, according to tradition, were placed in the caves of the rock by the Holy Office, so prolific in a land so affects the coven (see Witches and their world of Julio Caro Baroja ). Close to the chapel and the coastline is the island of aketxe, and bottom, to the east, the edge of the cliffs, we see the two lights of Cape Matxitxako.
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| Aketxe Island, in the first place, and the bottom Matxitxako Cape |
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