Tartales de Cilla No. 1 / Cella Terteles / Tartalés de Cilla / Tetelia

INFORMATION

Font ID: 24078TAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 7th - 10th century, Visigothic
Church / Chapel Name: Eremitorio [monasterio?] de San Pedro
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Ctra. Tartalés de los Montes, 09540 Tartalés de Cilla, Burgos, Spain
Site Location: Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: The group of caves known as "Cuevas de los portugueses" is located off the N-639, towards Tartalés de Cilla, about 3 km from Trespaderne
Font Notes:
The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed July 2022] notes: "Están datados tres antiguos monasterios o eremitorios. El primero dedicado a San Pedro en la parte alta del pueblo, cuya iglesia rupestre se conserva, con baptisterio, altar y tumbas antropomorfas, del siglo IX. Allí vivió San Fermín." Most of the sources are ambiguous about their description of the place noted above as "baptisterio", usually referring to it as having been either sacristy of baptistery.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 465573 4738082
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 47' 40.3" N, 3° 25' 15.5" W