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Church Attractions In Asturias

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Asturias , officially the Principality of Asturias , is an autonomous community in north-west Spain. It is coextensive with the province of Asturias, and contains some of the territory that was part of the larger Kingdom of Asturias in the Middle Ages. Divided into eight comarcas , the autonomous community of Asturias is bordered by Cantabria to the east, by Castile and León to the south, by Galicia to the west, and by the Bay of Biscay to the north. The most important cities are the communal capital, Oviedo , the seaport and largest city Gijón , and the industrial town of Avilés. Other municipalities in Asturias include Cangas de Onís , Cangas del...
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  • 1. Basilica de Santa Maria la Real de Covadonga Covadonga
    Basílica de Santa María la Real de Covadonga is a Catholic church located in Covadonga, Cangas de Onís, Asturias, Spain, that was designated as basilica on September 11, 1901. The temple was designed by the German architect Roberto Frassinelli and built between 1877 and 1901 by architect Federico Aparici y Soriano. It is a Neo-Romanesque church made entirely of pink limestone.
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  • 3. Iglesia de Santa Maria de Luanco Luanco
    Iglesia de Santa María is a church in Asturias, Spain.
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  • 6. San Julian de los Prados Oviedo
    San Julián de los Prados, also known as Santuyano, is a Pre-Ramirense church from the beginning of the 9th century in Oviedo, the capital city of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is one of the greatest works of Asturian art and was declared an Historical-Artistic Monument by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in June 1917 and a World Heritage Site by UNESCO on 2 December 1998. The church's construction was ordered by Alfonso II of Asturias and it was built by the court architect Tioda c. 830. It is dedicated to the martyred Egyptian saints Julian and Basilissa.
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  • 12. Iglesia de Santa Maria de la Oliva Villaviciosa
    Iglesia de Santa María de la Oliva is a 13th-century stone church in Villaviciosa of the autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias, in Spain. The church and town is on the coast of Biscay Bay in northern Spain. The stone Gothic church was completed in the Spanish Gothic style in the 1270s.
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  • 14. La Iglesia de San Juan el Real Oviedo
    La Rioja is an autonomous community and a province in Spain, located in the north of the Iberian Peninsula. Its capital is Logroño. Other cities and towns in the province include Calahorra, Arnedo, Alfaro, Haro, Santo Domingo de la Calzada, and Nájera. It has an estimated population of 322,415 inhabitants , making it the least populated region of Spain. It covers part of the Ebro valley towards its north and the Iberian Range in the south. The community is a single province, so there is no County Council, and it is organized into 174 municipalities. It borders the Basque Country to the north, Navarre to the northeast, Aragón to the southeast , and Castilla y León to the west and south . The area was once occupied by pre-Roman Berones, Pellendones and Basques. After partial recapture fr...
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  • 15. Church of Santa Cruz Cangas De Onis
    This article lists some but by no means all of the oldest known church buildings in the world. In most instances, buildings listed here were reconstructed numerous times and only fragments of the original buildings have survived. These surviving, freestanding buildings were purposely constructed for use by congregations and the dates are the approximate dates when they were first used by congregations for worship. Church may also be used in the sense of Christian denomination, or in the singular as the Christian Church as a whole. The church is traced to Pentecost and the beginning of the Christian mission in the 1st century and was not used in reference to a building. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia the Cenacle in Jerusalem was the first Christian church. Archaeology magazine sugge...
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