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• Late Mediaeval tower. Valdés.

  [Arts and culture] | [Monuments]

  … Villademoros. Valdés. Asturias. This square tower has five storeys. Although the roof has been lost, it is known to have been in the form of battlements. It is considered to be one of the finest examples of noble military architecture of the late Middle Ages in Asturias.…

• Church of Santiago. Cudillero.

  [Arts and culture] | [Monuments]

  … Novellana. Cudillero. Asturias. This church was built on a shrine which previously stood on the same site. The nave is covered with a very simple vault. It contains various valuable images, and particularly the figure of Christ known as the Cristo de los Vaqueiros.…

• Aula del Mar Centre in Luarca. Valdés.

  [Arts and culture] | [Museums]

  … Colegio Público Padre Galo, s/n. 33783. Luarca. Valdés. Asturias. Fax.: +34 985642619 | E-mail: auladelmar@cepesma.com.   The museum has a large display of marine animals, each with its own descriptive panel: over 400 specimens of different species including 8 of the largest and best conserved giant…

• Rectory of Soto de Luiña. Cudillero.

  [Arts and culture] | [Monuments]

  … 33150. Soto de Luiña. Cudillero. Asturias. This 2-storey rectangular building is built of masonry and has stone elements. The cornice is decorated with tryglyphs and metopes. It has been restored and is now used as a cultural centre and a museum offering an exhibition of a varied collection of sculp…

• Church of Santa María. Cudillero.

  [Arts and culture] | [Monuments]

  … 33156. Soto de Luiña. Cudillero. Asturias. It has a single nave, double crossing and semicircular apse. There is a three-storey square tower. The upper two storeys have niches and there are rectangular windows between them. The tower is completed with a stone cornice and feline gargoyles. The Baroqu…

• Church of Santa María in Soto de Luiña. Cudillero.

  [Arts and culture] | [Monuments]

  … Soto de Luiña. Cudillero. Asturias. It has three naves, a transept, a semicircular sanctuary crowned by a star shaped vault, a tower standing at one end and porticos on both sides supported by slender columns on a continuous base.…

• Palace of the Marquis de la Ferrera. Valdés.

  [Arts and culture] | [Monuments]

  … Calle Olavarrieta, s/n. Luarca. Valdés. Asturias. The palace has two wings, a chapel and stables. The original nucleus (the tower standing to the south) dates from before the 13th century.…

• Bruxu Fountain. Valdés.

  [Arts and culture] | [Monuments]

  … Calle Nicanor del Campo, s/n. Luarca. Valdés. Asturias. Built in 1764 by Julio Méndez Camina, the fountain is set in a square wall made of granite slabs, with two lower courses made of slate from which the four spouts protrude.…

• La Quinta. Cudillero.

  [Arts and culture] | [Parks and gardens]

  … Fundación Selgas-Fagalde s/n. 33154. Pito, El. Cudillero. Asturias. Fax.: +34 985591761 | E-mail: fundacion@selgas-fagalde.com. www.selgas-fagalde.com. La Quinta Park extends over irregular terrain which has made it possible to create very clearly defined areas that artfully blend into each other. W…

• Centro de Interpretación del Poblado Minero de Bustiello. Mieres.

  [Arts and culture] | [Museums]

  … A 2 kilómetros de la autovía A-66 Gijón-León, Bustiello. 33612. Bustiello. Mieres. Asturias. Fax.: +34 985422114 | E-mail: info@pozuespinos.com. http://www.territorio-museo.com. La vida en los valles mineros asturianos.   El poblado de Bustiello constituye una excepción dentro del patrimonio industr…

• San Martín de Salas Museum of pre-Romanesque Art. Salas.

  [Arts and culture] | [Museums]

  … Plaza La Campa, s/n. 33860. Salas. Asturias. E-mail: turismo@ayto-salas.es. http://www.ayto-salas.es.   Located in the historic tower of the palace of the Valdés Salas family, it contains a valuable collection of pieces and inscribed stone from the church of San Martín, 1 kilometre outside the villa…

• Valdés Salas Mansion. Salas.

  [Arts and culture] | [Monuments]

  … Plaza General Aranda, s/n. 33860. Salas. Asturias. Fax.: +34 985832004 | E-mail: turismo@ayto-salas.es. www.salasturismo.com.   It is a sober masonry and stonework building that shows the civil architectural style of the time. It was the birthplace of the founder of Oviedo University, Fernando Valdé…

• Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor. Salas.

  [Arts and culture] | [Monuments]

  … Plaza de la Iglesia, s/n. 33860. Salas. Asturias. Fax.: +34 985832004 | E-mail: turismo@ayto-salas.es. www.salasturismo.com. The collegiate church dates from the 16th century and has been declared a National Monument. Its most outstanding treasures are the mausoleum of Archbishop Valdés, the main al…

• Church of San Pedro. Cudillero.

  [Arts and culture] | [Monuments]

  … Plaza de San Pedro. 33150. Cudillero. Asturias. This building is in the Gothic style, but dates from the 16th century. It has a single nave with a cross vault and a semicircular apse. During the Spanish Civil War it was burned down and rebuilt.…

• Chapel of El Humilladero. Cudillero.

  [Arts and culture] | [Monuments]

  … 33150. Cudillero. Asturias. This Gothic chapel has been extensively reformed. It has a square floor plan with buttresses and ogival vaults. The altarpiece dates from the 16th or 17th century.…

• Architectural Site of Los Selgas. Cudillero.

  [Arts and culture] | [Monuments]

  … 33154. El Pito. Cudillero. Asturias. E-mail: reservas@selgas-fagalde.com. This palace was built in the neoclassical style according to a design by Fortunato Selgas in the 19th century. The palace has been likened to a museum for the quantity and quality of the furnishings in its interior.…

• Tox Palace. Navia.

  [Arts and culture] | [Monuments]

  … Tox. Navia. Asturias.…

• Monastery of Santa Maria La Real in Obona. Tineo.

  [Arts and culture] | [Monuments]

  … El Crucero, s/n. 33877. El Crucero. Tineo. Asturias. The monastery of Santa Maria La Real in Obona contains an unfinished cloister dating from the 17th century. Its church is built in the Cistercian Romanesque style and has three naves separated by cruciform pilasters and with a wooden ceiling thoug…

• Church of Santa Marina. Navia.

  [Arts and culture] | [Monuments]

  … 33790. Puerto de Vega. Navia. Asturias. www.infoasturias.com. This large church was designed and built between 1730 and 1749. It contains an excellent series of altarpieces by the architect and sculptor José Bernardo de la Meana.…

• Casino and Theatre. Navia.

  [Arts and culture] | [Museums]

  … Puerto de Vega. Navia. Asturias. This building dates from between 1930 and 1931, and its most outstanding features is the glassed-in curved balcony in the Modernist style. There is a theatre on the interior and it occasionally opens to the public for temporary exhibitions and cultural events.…

• Santianes de Pravia Church. Pravia.

  [Arts and culture] | [Monuments]

  … 33129. Santianes. Pravia. Asturias. E-mail: oficinaturismopravia@hotmail.com. The church was commissioned by King Silo. Built between the years 774 and 783 and reformed during the XVII and XVIII century.It has a basilica plan with three naves separated by pillars and square sanctuary.Preserving its …

• Juan Pérez Villamil Ethnographic Museum. Navia.

  [Arts and culture] | [Museums]

  … Avenida Juan Pérez Villamil, 2. Puerta de Vega. Navia. Asturias. This museum was opened in September 2001 thanks to an initiative by the Cultural Association of Friends of the History of Puerto de Vega (Navia). It was created as homage to marine and peasant life and to the phenomenon of emigration. …

• Monastery of San Salvador. Salas.

  [Arts and culture] | [Monuments]

  … Cornellana. Salas. Asturias. Fax.: +34 985832004 | E-mail: turismo@ayto-salas.es. www.salasturismo.com. It was founded in 1024 by the Infanta Cristina, the daughter of the King of León, Vermudo II. In the 12th century it was ceded to the Cluny order and from that point it became one of the most impo…

• Museum of Sacred Art in Tineo. Tineo.

  [Arts and culture] | [Museums]

  … Plaza Alonso Martínez, s/n. 33870. Tineo. Asturias.   The museum is housed within the premises of the old convent of San Francisco del Monte. It has a display of gold items (chalices, communion plates, candlesticks, pyxes, processional crosses and other religious objects), carved wooden images (the …

• Palace of the García de Tineo family. Tineo.

  [Arts and culture] | [Monuments]

  … Calle Mayor, 18. 33870. Tineo. Asturias. Also known as the “House of Tineo”, it underwent multiple reforms before it attained its present appearance. The original nucleus was probably the circular mediaeval tower which is thought to have been built in the late 12th or early 13th century. The main fa…