Azpeitia
Loyola Basilica
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Loyola Basilica
Contact details
Santuario de Loyola
20730
Azpeitia, Guipúzcoa - Gipuzkoa
(Basque Country)
santuteguia@sjloyola.org
www.santuariodeloyola.org
Tel.:+34 943025000
Fax.:+34 943025031
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.
Practical information
Schedule
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From Monday to Sunday
From 10:00 to 12:30
From 15:30 to 18:15
Prices
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General:
€3
Retired persons: €2,50