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• Casino de Llanes. Llanes.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Calle Nemesio Sobrino, s/n. 33500. Llanes. Asturias. E-mail: cultura@ayuntamientodellanes.com. http://www.ayuntamientodellanes.com/es/portal.do. This palace once housed the former Casino-Theatre of Llanes, an extremely important social centre for the town's bourgeoisie. It represents an exceptional …

• Historic Mediaeval Site of Llanes. Llanes.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … 33500. Llanes. Asturias. The wall was built in the 13th century and has four main access gateways. The tower was intended as a defensive fortification and was subsequently used as a prison. Today it is the site of the Tourist Office. The Gothic-style basilica stands in the Plaza de Cristo Rey square…

• Aula del Mar Museum. Llanes.

  Arts and culture | [Museums]

  … Paseo de las Marismas, s/n. 33500. Llanes. Asturias.   This museum covers everything related with the sea, including subjects such as whale hunting in the Middle Ages through to the emigration to America. Through a range of different elements, an imaginative setting and the exhibition of unusual obj…

• Ethnographic Museum of Eastern Asturias. Llanes.

  Arts and culture | [Museums]

  … calle Barriu Llacín. 33509. Porrúa. Llanes. Asturias.   It has an ethnographic collection representing the traditional life of the eastern part of Asturias. The objects on display examine the local rural architecture in which the museum is housed, as well as the activities which take place outside t…

• Idol of Peña Tú. Llanes.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Puertas de Vidiago, s/n. Puertas de Vidiago. Llanes. Asturias.   The rock has been known since antiquity to the inhabitants of the nearby towns, although it was not until 1914 when the first archaeological research was carried out. These investigations revolved around the figure which gives its name…

• Church of San Antolín de Bedón. Llanes.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Naves s/n. Naves. Llanes. Asturias. This monastery church has three naves and masonry walls with ashlar stonework buttressing. The church was rebuilt in 1955 by Luis Menendez Pidal.…

• Espriella Palace. Llanes.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Villahormes s/n. Villahormes. Llanes. Asturias. www.llanesnet.com/monumentos/espriella. Construction began in 1616 on this palace for the nobleman Llanes de Espriella. It has a rectangular floor plan with a central courtyard. Built in whitewashed stone, an interesting feature is the heraldic crest o…

• Llonín Cave. Peñamellera Alta.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … 33578. Llonín. Peñamellera Alta. Asturias. http://www.infoasturias.com/action/InfoasturiasFichaRecurso?recursoId=2417&metodo=getFichaHTML. Some thirty prehistoric engravings and paintings. Designated World Heritage in 2008. Located in a narrow valley on the banks of the Cares River. It runs for 700 …

• Covaciella Cave. Cabrales.

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  … 33555. Cabrales. Asturias. Perfectly conserved, prehistoric rock art. Designated World Heritage in 2008. Discovered by chance in 1994, it contains the best conserved representation of bison anywhere in Asturias, due to the fact that the cave was sealed closed for thousands of years. Its 40-metre gal…

• El Pindal Cave. Ribadedeva.

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  … 33590. Pimiango. Ribadedeva. Asturias. http://tematico.asturias.es/cultura/yacimientos/pindal.html. Prehistoric rock art on the shores of the Cantabrian Sea. Designated World Heritage in 2008. It is 300 metres long and has Palaeolithic cave paintings on one of its walls. It is in a stunning location…

• Monastery of Tina Mayor. Ribadedeva.

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  … Senda Costera Bustio - La Franca. 33590. Bustia - La Franca. Ribadedeva. Asturias.   It was built in the 12th century and today only its ruins remain amid the ferns. This monastery served as a refuge for pilgrims on the Way of Saint James on the route through Asturias.…

• Palacio de los Prieto Cutre. Ribadesella.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Plaza Reina María Cristina, 1. 33560. Ribadesella. Asturias. Obra del siglo XVI, antigua propiedad de la familia Prieto, que luego fue de los Cutre. La fachada, de sillares de buena calidad e impecable escuadrado, posee bajo y tres pisos separados por líneas de imposta. El piso inferior tiene una po…

• El Collado House. Ribadesella.

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  … Ribadesella. Asturias. It has three floors and a basement and is famous for being the birthplace of the painter Darío de Regoyos. The main facade has an outstanding balcony which occupies the whole of the front, and the family crest of the Marquises de Collado can be seen on the upper floor.…

• Parish Church of Santa María Magdalena. Ribadesella.

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  … Ribadesella. Asturias. It was built in the early 20th century on the remains of an old mediaeval church. It was almost completely destroyed during the Spanish Civil War in 1936 but was subsequently rebuilt. The architectural features of interest include the two towers on its main facade, between whi…

• La Atalaya Tower. Ribadesella.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Plaza de Villar y Valle, s/n. 33560. Ribadesella. Asturias. It was built in the 19th century on the remains of an old mediaeval defensive tower. It is a neo-mediaeval Romanesque square tower built in stonework and crowned by battlements.…

• Chapel of the Virgin de La Guía. Ribadesella.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Ribadesella. Asturias. This small Renaissance shrine underwent a major reconstruction in the 19th century. Its square floor plan suggests that it may have been shortened; this implies that the current building is formed by only the nave of the original.…

• Emigration Museum, the Indias Archive. Ribadedeva.

  Arts and culture | [Museums]

  … Quinta Guadalupe s/n. 33590. Colombres. Ribadedeva. Asturias. Tel.: +34 985412005 | +34 985412414 | E-mail: info@archivodeindianos.es. http://www.archivodeindianos.es/. An emigrant’s journey. The house that is the site of the Indias Archive was built by the emigrant Íñigo Noriega in 1906. The buildi…

• Tito Bustillo Cave. Ribadesella.

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  … Avenida de Tito Bustillo s/n. 33560. Ribadesella. Asturias. Tel.: +34 902306600 | +34 985861255 | E-mail: info@centrodearterupestredetitobustillo.com . http://www.centrodearterupestredetitobustillo.com. Prehistoric paintings of female forms. Set in a group of Palaeolithic caves. Almost all of the Ti…

• Los Estrada Tower. San Vicente de la Barquera.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … 39549. Estrada. San Vicente de la Barquera. Cantabria. It has unique features among the mediaeval fortifications in Cantabria thanks to the conservation of its walled precinct, the remains of the moat and its chapel-fortress.…

• Santa María Church in Lebeña. Cillorigo de Liébana.

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  … 39583. Lebeña. Cillorigo de Liébana. Cantabria. Fax.: +34 942840380 | E-mail: info@santillanamuseodiocesano.com. www.santillanamuseodiocesano.com/liebana.htm. Cantabrian Mozarab. It was built at the request of the counts of Levana, in the 10th century. Its arches are horseshoe-shaped throughout almo…

• Los Junco Palace. Ribadesella.

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  … 33560. Sebreño. Ribadesella. Asturias. This building dates from the 16th century and was subsequently reformed. It has a square floor plan and three storeys and is formed by a central section flanked by two side sections. There is an attractive viewing point nearby which offers views over the coastl…

• Church of Santa Juliana de Lafuente. Lamasón.

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  … Barrio de Lafuente. 39550. Lafuente. Lamasón. Cantabria. http://www.aytolamason.es/. Set in a valley amid mountains, this simple country church has conserved its original structure in a region which is home to very few examples of Romanesque art. It has a very simple structure: a nave with a pitched…

• Covadonga Sanctuary. Cangas de Onís.

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  … Explanada Basílica s/n. 33589. Cangas de Onís. Asturias. Fax.: +34 985846043 | E-mail: covadonga@iglesiadeasturias.org. http://www.santuariodecovadonga.com/. The start of the Re-conquest. Covadonga is the place where the Re-conquest began under king Pelayo, whose remains are buried in the cave along…

• Avín Cavern. Onís.

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  … Cuevona de Avín. 33556. Onís. Asturias. E-mail: museosdeonis@gmail.com. http://www.cuevasturisticas.es. A subterranean visit to glacial fauna. Located in Asturias at the foot of the Picos de Europa (Peaks of Europe) mountains in a karst topography and subterranean paradise, we can see how life was i…

• Upper Jurassic Formations. Ribadesella.

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  … 33560. Tereñes. Ribadesella. Asturias. There is evidence of the presence of dinosaurs where Secondary Era sedimentary formations appear. These formations were the ground where these animals used to roam.…