Bible: Expert on discovery of story that was 'never included'
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The Catholic military order was active for almost 200 years until their abrupt demise. At the height of their power between the 12th and 13th century, the Templars were among the most skilled fighting units of the Crusade period and managed large Christian economic organisations across Europe and the Middle East. But their sudden reduction in power inspired the rise of legends and has seen them at the centre of intense research ever since.
One spot probed by experts is the hermitage of San Bartolome, a 12th-century chapel in the Rio dos Lobos Canyon of Spain, which was built by the Templars in a very peculiar spot.
Architect Carlos Sanchez-Montana told BBC Reel: “The Templars were connoisseurs of knowledge and discipline of antiquity.
“By their architecture in San Bartolome de Ucero they managed to amplify the power of the Rio Lobos canyon.
“If there is a place in the [Iberian] peninsula that we can call a ‘place of power,’ it is here.
“It is a place where, throughout time, the Templars, but also the Romans and the men of the Bronze Age have been having an experience of power, mystical, sacred and symbolic that today we can also verify.”
In the Seventies, researcher Garcia Atienza discovered the area was equidistant “from two extremes on the peninsula” – Cape Creus in Gerona and Cape Finisterre in Galicia.
Mr Sanchez-Montana added: ”The Templars knew all the secrets of the ancient world. They interpreted them, handled and used them.
“The hermitage built by the Templars knows this secret of equidistance.
“San Bartolome de Ucero rises with this architectural artefact that is this hermitage in the true equidistant point of the Iberian peninsula.”
Some believe the order may have once carried the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant, two items central to Bible scripture, yet never found.
Templar historian Angel Almazan detailed how a clue points towards the Templar’s ambitions at the time.
He said: “One of the unusual curiosities found in the San Bartolome de Ucero is in the interior capitals.
“It is a figure that is like a table divided into two.
“It is the schematic way in which they represent the Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia – there are legends that the templars were searching for it.”
And Mr Almazan said further evidence had also been uncovered that showed the area’s importance to the order.
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He added: “We have verified how on the dates of the Roman festival Mundus Patet, November 7 and 8, the sunset exactly coincides with the alignment of the church in its west-east.
“That shadow marks the spot where it is located.
“There was a Templar convent in the Osma Diocese called San Juan de Otero.
“It is traditionally located in the ruins of a church that is about 100 metres from the castle of Ucero, which is where the original Templar convent is supposed to be.
“It is about four kilometres from the current hermitage.”
Mr Almazan said experts believe that “all the territory” would have been the property of the Templars at the time – adding that there could be a link.
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