The hermitages were very small individual rooms, where the monks, or solitary anchorites, retired to live in prayer, solitude and the most rigorous asceticism.
The grouping of several hermitages very often gave rise, during the first centuries of monasticism (4th - 8th centuries), to the establishment of monastic communities.
The hermitages of Burgal are artificial caves, with difficult access, located on the cliff of the plane where the monastery is located. They are probably the origin of the first monastic community of Burgal, at a historical moment before the year 859, when a monastic community already existed in Burgal, fully established under the rule of Abbot Deligat, the first known abbot of Burgal.
From the fork, go down the path on the right, which is quite steep, until you reach a small landing at the foot of the cliff. There is no continuation so return, now uphill, on the same path.