Gaztelugatxe is a small island on the Basque coast belonging to the municipality of Bermeo and is considered one of the Basque Country Spain. It is of stunning beauty that enchants hearts at first sight. It begins to reach it on the mainland by a man-made bridge until you ascend to the top of the island. There is a hermitage called Gaztelugatxeko Doniene in the Basque San Juan de Gaztelugatxe in Spanish. There are different accounts of a place where things gather all past eras dating back to the tenth century as some hold, although discoveries indicate that the date may have been the ninth century, this is more likely than it is.
An area that contains places of history and is under the sea and the surface of the land, which has a wealth of things that make it historically important to tourists in all its aspects.
In 1593 Francis Drake plundered it. Among other accidents, it caught fire times. On November 10, 1978, it was destroyed in one of these fires. Two years later, on June 24, 1980, it reopened. The hermitage belongs to the diocese of San Pelayo in Bakio.
