Of all the historical-artistic manifestations that we can discover in the Principality of Asturias, UNESCO has already taken good note and has granted the distinction of Heritage to the Asturian Paleolithic, to its legendary and unusual pre-Romanesque architecture, to the Holy Chamber of the Oviedo Cathedral and the Camino de Santiago.
Jurassic Coast
The geological sites from time immemorial, which are exhibited in the form of an open-air museum, are also admirable. This is the case with the Jurassic and the Route of the Coast of the Dinosaurs, well delimited between the towns of Gijón and Ribadesella. A stretch of coastline with an abundance of footprints and bone remains of these reptiles.
Coast of the dinosaurs Asturias
On the eastern coast of Asturias every day that passes more fossils and traces of a fertile ...
Jurassic Museum - MUJA
In a privileged place on the coast of Asturias a few meters above sea level, is located the ...
Glacial Fauna Center
Human beings who arrived in Europe from the African continent, 40.000 years ago, suffered a climate...
Prehistory
We come to the Neanderthals. The site of El Sidrón It is located in the Piloña council, relatively close to the Asturian coast. In the small "Galería del Osario", the best collection of Neanderthal skeletal remains in the entire Iberian Peninsula has been cataloged since 2000. The declaration of UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Principality includes 5 Prehistoric Caves with outstanding rock paintings and engravings. Our community is, together with Cantabria, the French Pyrenees and the Dordogne, one of the regions of Europe that keeps the most caves open to the public. But, due to conservation issues, your visit is restricted to a few months a year, and daily quota of people. In any case, at any time you can visit informative centers such as the Teverga Prehistory Park.
The 13 of the Sidrón
The El Sidrón deposit is located in the council of Piloña, relatively close to…
Tito Bustillo Cave
The cave of Tito Bustillo is one of the great sanctuaries of the Palaeolithic art of Europe. Shape …
Cueva del Pindal, a rock sanctuary
Since prehistory was seen in the lands of today's Ribadedeva, a lot of time has passed, so much...
The Park of Prehistory
The Teverga Prehistory Park is the ancestral art gallery par excellence, houses the ...
Neolithic
The Iron Age manifested itself in Asturias mainly through fortified towns, known as castros most concentrated in the central and western areas of the region. The idol of Peña You, tattooed on a mysterious rock, is another cardinal point of the Bronze Age in Asturias.
Archaeological sites of Asturias
Parietal art in our region, which in some cases equates us to the great art centers...
The Castro de Coaña
The castreña culture belongs to the Iron Age, a hard, bellicose period, full of insecurity. …
The Idol of Peña You
The idol of Peña Tú, tattooed forever on a mysterious rock that has provoked religious sentiment...
Romanization
Asturias has significant remains in the form of mosaics (Vega del Ciego, Veranes or La Estaca), hot springs (Campo Valdés, Valduno and Lugo de Llanera) or burials (Paredes and Argandenes). Epigraphy, ceramics, ornamental objects or cash, have abundant examples in the permanent exhibition of the Archaeological Museum of Asturias.
The Roman sites of Gijón
Conquering Asturias, and specifically Gijón, was not an easy task for the Empire, since the Asturians gave…
Archaeological Museum of Asturias
The Archaeological Museum of Asturias is located in the very heart of Oviedo, at the back of the …
pre-Romanesque art
The Asturian Pre-Romanesque is known as the group of churches, buildings and other artistic manifestations linked to the Kingdom of Asturias, whose history takes place between the 718th and 910th centuries (XNUMX-XNUMX). An original and very exceptional architectural style, a unique art in the history of Western European architecture that led the enlightened Melchor Gaspar to describe it as "Asturian Art"; Today it is a World Heritage Site.
The Asturian pre-Romanesque of Oviedo
The most native architecture of Asturias loses its roots more than a thousand years ago. The traces of the…
Pre-Romanesque and Romanesque of Villaviciosa
La ornamental wealth of Villaviciosa's heritage is discovered in all its finishes: in the arches...
Santa Cristina de Lena
Santa Cristina is unique. A monument more than a thousand years old that is a little secret within the…
the Camino de Santiago
In close connection with the Kingdom of Asturias, there is the birth of the Camino de Santiago, promoted by the Asturian king Alfonso II in the XNUMXth century, and which over time has become one of the most important cultural routes in the world.
The Camino de Santiago in Asturias
Although the Camino de Santiago on its Asturian side is less traveled compared to other routes of...
Medieval
The artistic, historical and architectural legacy of the Middle Ages in Asturias is abundant. From the late Middle Ages, among many other milestones, we propose here the following places and itineraries of interest.
Medieval towns of Asturias
In Asturias the medieval remains of walls are well known, perhaps not so much entire towns with ...
The route of the mills in Villaviciosa
In Asturias it will be difficult for us to come across a windmill. Due to its geographical configuration,…
Ethnography in Taramundi
We would have to go back 2 or 3 centuries to understand many things about our XNUMXst century. Make a …
The Cathedral of Oviedo
Not many years ago, the façade of the Cathedral of Oviedo appeared dark, superficially...
Asturian ethnography
The network of Ethnographic Museums of Asturias [MEDA Network] began its operation in 2001, at the request of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Principality of Asturias.
Its mission is to coordinate collection management, dissemination, research and training work in museums of this type in Asturias. In them we find a large sample of objects and belongings related to the agricultural world, livestock or fishing activities, and also to that intangible heritage of Asturian culture that makes up, among others, cider or bagpipes.
Ethnographic museums of Asturias
The Network of Ethnographic Museums of Asturias [MEDA network] It began operating in the year…
Asturian granaries
Etymologically, the word hórreo comes from the Latin horreum, which designated a building in which…
Indian architecture
The Asturian emigration America at the end of the XNUMXth century and the beginning of the XNUMXth century was a social phenomenon that over the years has become part of the history of the community. Back home, those who managed to make their fortune practiced a competition unknown until then in their humble rural environment: translating into new homes all the wealth they displayed, always trying to make their house the most beautiful and striking. This is how Asturias enjoys a high density of haughty and colorful mansions, unique Modernist palaces and mansions with dream gardens that will leave us speechless.
Archives of Indians
The Asturian emigration to America at the end of the XNUMXth century and the beginning of the XNUMXth century was quite a ...
Route of the indianos' houses
Monumental facades, ornate fences, galleries, patios, balconies, dreamy doorways, chapels...
Somao, history of Indianos
Somao has a high density of haughty and colorful mansions with dream gardens that will leave us…
Industrial heritage of Asturias
The industrial heritage of our country in general and of Asturias in particular reflects an incredible change, the transition from an economy based on agriculture to one based on the production of consumer items. The industrial revolution transformed places, landscapes, people... In Asturias, most are linked to industry and mining, one of the sectors that sustained the business and labor fabric of a good number of generations of Asturians.
Industrial Heritage of Asturias
Here we collect some of the equipment scattered throughout the Asturian geography and that have a special…
art centers
El museum of fine arts of asturias, inaugurated in 1980 and recently rehabilitated, has a collection of between 8 and 10.000 inventoried pieces, although only between 350-400 are exhibited to the public. It contains paintings by Spanish artists -highlighting Asturian ones- and foreigners (especially Italian and Flemish painting), as well as sculptures, photographs and glass and earthenware objects. He Art Center of the Labor, in Gijón is a domotic and living museum, an immense space with a total of 14.400 square meters of surface to seek experimentation around new concepts and artistic languages. He Niemeyer Center de Avilés is a unique species of its kind, a cultural agglutinator that seeks the synergies of the arts within an enveloping architecture and beautiful and calculated perspectives.
Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias
The Museum, inaugurated in Oviedo in May 1980, is located installed in three buildings in the neighborhood ...
Art Center of the Labor
Impressive and surprising, those are the words that best define the new Art Center of the…
The Niemeyer Center
The Niemeyer Center is a unique species of its kind, a cultural agglutinator who seeks the…
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