Up in the hills where Don Pelayo and his men...

...held out against the Moorish conquerors in Spain back in the Eighth Century, there is this little chapel built up in the caves, and the locals like to "claim that 'Asturias is the real Spain, all the rest is conquered territory,'" says Karen Hall, of Some Have Hats, who recently flew to Spain on a pilgrimage.

I don't know why, but I have a bit of a fascination with buildings built right into hillsides and cliffs and caves. Like, for instance, Mesa Verde. (Which, I see, is celebrating 100 years as a national park.)