2012 Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias. Map showing Santa Maria del Naranco and San Miguel de Lillo 2012 Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias. Map showing Santa ...

In the mountains of Asturias, the border between Earth and sky is rock hard and razor sharp, but also precariously thin and sometimes blurred by mist. It seems only natural that these soaring ...

which was the beginning of the Reconquest of Spain and brought about the foundation of the Kingdom of Asturias. A neo-Romanesque church now stands on the site and is an important place of ...

Originally built to be a monastic city dedicated to the Church of Saint Vincent, it was chosen to be the new capital of the Kingdom of Asturias in the 9th century, thanks to its strategic location ...

Go back 11 centuries and the kingdom of Asturias was one of the isolated patches of Spain free of Moorish control. King Ramiro I created a palatial hunting lodge on the side of a minor mountain ...

At the time, Oviedo/Uviéu was the capital of the Kingdom of Asturias and the King’s pilgrimage inspired many others to make the journey to Santiago de Compostela. Ever since then, it has been a ...

2012 Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias. Map showing Santa Maria del Naranco and San Miguel de Lillo 2012 Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias. Map showing Santa ...

In the 9th century the flame of Christianity was kept alive in the Iberian peninsula in the tiny Kingdom of the Asturias. Here an innovative pre-Romanesque architectural style was created that was to ...