Legends of La Rioja — Wine, Pilgrims & Miracle Stories

Discover the legends of La Rioja, Spain's wine country. From miracle stories along the Camino de Santiago to tales of enchanted vineyards.

<p La Rioja, Spain's smallest autonomous community, packs an extraordinary amount of legend into its vine-covered hills. The Camino de Santiago passes through this region, and with it come tales of miracles, enchanted fountains, and the Miracle of the Rooster — where a dead cockerel crowed to prove a pilgrim's innocence.</p

<p The Monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla, birthplace of the Spanish language, guards its own treasury of medieval legends. In the vineyards, stories say that the best wines grow where saints walked.</p