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The history leaves traces, quiet places, covered by a mantle of forgetfulness, which maintain a memory weak, misleading oral transmitted between heirs, that popular devotion to hobbies hikers exchanged. Ancient sites of magical and miraculous cures, sustained by faith. Salutary sites of intimate beauty, elected by the proximity of nature with God, the gateway to Heaven.

I mean Monk, because despite its ruinous state has kept the name and memory. Madoz, in the mid-nineteenth century, described what he was told: "... residue of an ancient monastery. Its title is Our Lady of Sorrows, and it is where they usually go in penitence or promises the people of Marbella and other towns of the contour. It has a hermit taking care of the building and worship, being enough for one and another object the alms of the faithful. "

Your access it is not difficult, there is more to cross the stream Calañas, course and name it shares with the Guadalpín, northwest of urbanization Xarblanca and follow its banks until after less than an hour arrives the destination. If we clock back to the eighteenth the road would begin at the Porte de Ronda, would amount to Broad Street and Alameda in San Francisco. From the convent would continue on the path of Trapiche up to the Prado, where we would take the fork in the slope of the Animas. Upon arrival at the mill, the bridge over the creek would open the way to the path of Istan toiled, but the penitent adentraría to right on a ravine lush vegetation and shade, with the sound of wind and sound of water from its small waterfalls and pools.

The area around the shrine was planted with vines and dotted with gardens, two hermits cared for her, but in 1761 had left, "that the hermit brothers attended in this place for decency and worship of the church of Nuestra Senora de la Soledad de la Sierra, have been absent and has been that church and field its immediacy only by Francisco Granados, a citizen of this city because of providence for the preservation of the cult of the hermitage. "

The vine was of poor quality, low substance the garden, "only have designed a wrought its usefulness to the decency of the hermitage church for being so short is maintained at the expense of devotion and the rest of the land being irrigated by said ditch to populate corn with some fruit trees so uneducated of the lower ground and ground forces short of that garden manure so that it can benefit. "

The building is oriented in a north-south axis, reveals humble demeanor, though well crafted, holding in his side lift the edge of a steep fall through thick buttresses . Simple facade, topped with a small steeple. Had a single ship, is subdivided into two spaces, one for the faithful, one for the monks. At the rear, other agencies topped the group.

Their names, Our Lady of Sorrows, Soledad or the Sierra, refer to one, that of the Virgen de los Dolores, the oldest among marbellenses revered. From the Church of the Incarnation to the Monks always a way sacral slope-fitted to the path of religiosity. Niches, chapels, crosses, the chapel of Santa Ana, after the Mother of God, the Church of the Remedies, also of San Sebastian, the Holy Christ and its Dolorosa, San Francisco with his devotion to the Virgin. A triumphant ascent. A Triumph of Faith

Centuries later, less spiritual and a social conscience, a group of civically responsible citizens, who do not seek eternal salvation but the conversion of others to the cause of conservation in our history, they do not want charity or wages, have endeavored to raise at Monks the mantle of oblivion, to break his silence and transmit an ideal more secular, an effort with a certain degree of audacity, the defense of our heritage or what is the difference between doing what the government do not. Need help, begin on Saturday to clean that, they need affection as these works are often difficult and poorly understood, and they could use without frills thanks because they are simple people.