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• 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.…

• 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…

• Tox Palace. Navia.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Tox. Navia. Asturias.…

• 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.…

• 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. …

• 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.…

• Camposorio Palace. Navia.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Piñera. Navia. Asturias. This site was built in the 18th century and is halfway between a palace and a country farmstead producing agriculture and cattle. It comprises the main building, farmyard, raised granary, bakery, stables, service buildings and a back garden.…

• Mohías Fort. Coaña.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … 33795. Mohías. Coaña. Asturias. www.infoasturias.com. It was discovered in 1939 but was not excavated until 1968-1970. A key feature is the large number of cabins with clearly delimited fireplaces. It was inhabited during the second half of the 1st century and the first half of the 2nd century. It m…

• 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.…

• Castro de Coaña (Navia Historical Park). Coaña.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Carretera AS-12. 33795. Coaña. Asturias. E-mail: castrodecoana@gmail.com. http://www.parquehistorico.org/. The iron-age settlements of the northwest peninsula. The "castros" were a distinctive type of iron-age settlement in the area of Asturias, León and Galicia. Excavations of this pre-Roman site h…

• 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…

• 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 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.…

• Wrought Iron Museum. Franco, El.

  Arts and culture | [Museums]

  … Pelayo, 2. 33750. La Caridad. Franco, El. Asturias. www.infoasturias.com.   This museum contains wrought iron work created by Ángel Fernández López (La Caridad, 1920 - 2000).…

• 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…

• 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 …

• 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…

• 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…

• Church of San Bartolomé. Franco, El.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Valdepares. Franco, El. Asturias. The church of San Bartolomé de Valdepares was built in the 16th century. Features on the interior include altarpieces dating from the Middle Ages.…

• Fonfría Palace. Franco, El.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Valdepares. Franco, El. Asturias. It was built in the 16th century and belonged to the family of Diego Castrillón Cienfuegos. It has a library and a small chapel.…

• 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…

• 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…

• Shrine of Los Remedios. Franco, El.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Porcía. Franco, El. Asturias. This small church is built of stone. Its importance derives from the intense devotion of the local inhabitants for the Virgin de los Remedios.…