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La Rioja is home to the largest number of rock-cut hermitages in Christian Spain at that time. San Millán de la Cogolla and Santa Maria la Real de Nájera were the origin of such important events as the birth of the Castilian Romance language and the development of wine presses, essential to monastic life. We can also see the Romanesque buildings that rise around the Camino de Santiago.