The Cruz de Ferro (English: Cruz de Hierro, dt: Iron Cross) is a small iron cross mounted on a tree trunk, in the Montes de León the msnm with 1,500 the highest point of English pilgrimage route on Mount Irago marked. (Only the Somport pass on the Aragonese way is higher.)
The cross stands in a pile of rocks, which is exacerbated by pilgrims steadily. Apart from a small modern chapel, there are some sheltered resting places for pilgrims. Until the Christianization of the town by a hermit who established the forerunner of the above-mentioned cross, was at this point by a Roman Weggottheit Dropping a stone worshiped. However, since the Celts used road crossings and other outstanding natural places as places of worship, also not the first cult in this place must have been.
According to the warden of a hostel for pilgrims from Tomás Manjarin said to have been the pile of stones heaped up in the 50s on the highway, so the place is more accessible for bus tourists. The original pile from the Roman period is located 300 meters are off the road. In the 1990 years, the Cruz de Ferro victims of vandalism, as unknowns the tree of the cross cut with a chainsaw. The
not originally Christian tradition, the Cruz de Ferro to place a stone, is now easily integrated into religious pilgrimages motivated by the stone brought from home as a symbol which is considered to be left behind on the way "sins" respectively, the already experienced purification. Many pilgrims take advantage of the Cruz de Ferro also to the trunk of the Cross, personal items, letters or even votive offerings to bring.
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