Santo Toribio de Liébana

From Potes a minor road (signposted) runs 3km/2mi west to the monastery of Santo Toribio de Liébana, which was founded in the seventh century but in its present form is Late Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque. In the Capilla de la Santísima Cruz can be seen what is claimed to be the largest surviving piece of the True Cross, brought here from Jerusalem in the fifth century by Bishop Toribio. A monk from this monastery, Beatus of Liébana, wrote a famous commentary on the Apocalypse directed against the Arians which was frequently copied in magnificent manuscripts. One such copy is preserved at Seo de Urgel.