Azpeitia

Loyola Basilica

Contact details

Loiola Auzoa, 16
20730 Azpeitia, Guipúzcoa - Gipuzkoa (Basque Country)
www.santuariodeloyola.org
Tel.:+34 943025000

Location

Autonomous region: Basque Country
Province/Island: Guipúzcoa - Gipuzkoa

Description

In honour of San Ignacio de Loyola.

This Baroque Basilica has a wonderful dome of 24 metres in diameter.

Work of the famous Italian architect Carlo Fontana. It was inaugurated in 1738. It is baroque in style, with a circular floor plan and a 65 metre-high dome. A few metres from the Basilica you can visit the old Loyola House-Tower, where San Ignacio was born in 1491.

Construction: Basilica
Artistic period: Baroque
Historic period: 18th century
Setting: San Agustin Church, San Juan Hermitage, Magdalena Hermitage, Nuestra Señora de Olaz Hermitage.