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Asturian culture is as diverse as it is rich and attractive. The World Heritage, which includes a large part of Pre-Romanesque Art and Rock Art, as well as the Way of St. James; other cultural itineraries, museums and cultural spaces or religious heritage, are some of the attractions that will attract you to the magic of this Natural Paradise.
- History and Tradition
Asturias was the first Christian kingdom of this European...
- Rock Art
The Asturian “El Dorado” The Asturian “El Dorado ... If you...
- Pre-Romanesque
The Art of the Asturian Monarchy: A Landmark in Medieval...
- World Heritage
Pre-Romanesque Art, 5 prehistoric caves and some parts of...
- Cities of Asturias
The cities of Asturias - Oviedo/Uviéu, Gijón/Xixón, and...
- Explore Accommodation Options
The Asturian “El Dorado” The Asturian “El Dorado” The...
- History and Tradition
- Architecture
- Minor Arts
- Pre-Romanesque Assets of Asturias
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Features
Although it is the successor of the Visigothic style, it cannot be said that the Asturian style is its legitimate heir, since it only accidentally conserves some of its main elements such as the horseshoe arch, very soon it manifests itself with new and original elements perhaps imported from Orient or Lombardy that singularly enhance it and denounce it as a precursor of the Romanesque. The characteristics that identify Asturian art are: 1. The desire to remembrance the glories of the Visigot...
Stages
Asturian art offers the two types or forms that were already noted to be different in the pollero style, but that are even more precise in Asturian art: the Latin type and the Byzantine type. Both types admit columns and pilasters and also semi-columns attached to the wall and locked with arches, thus forming the composite wall and preluding the composite pillar of Romanesque architecture, which already appears complete in the Mozarabic architecture of the 10th century. In both types there ar...
Painting
All these buildings that have just been listed were profusely decorated, according to some old drawings, copied from their large mural paintings (of late Roman tradition), now disappeared. Only the goldsmithing that has come down to us, all of a religious nature, offers us the authentic panorama of this art.
Goldsmithing
It begins with the Cruz de los Ángeles, which Alfonso II ordered made in 808 for the cathedral of Oviedo, with a threatening inscription: whoever dares to take it from me where my free will donates it, be struck down by divine lightning. It is a reliquary in the shape of a Greek cross, reminiscent of Hispano-Gothic or Carolingian prototypes, with a disc in the center; the wooden core is gold plated and set with precious stones. Larger, more elegant and more sumptuous is the Victoria Cross, do...
Pre-Romanesque architecture
1. Church of Santullano or San Julián de los Prados (Oviedo) 2. Church of St. Tirso (Oviedo) 3. Foncalada Fountain (Oviedo) 4. Santa Maria del Naranco (Oviedo) 5. San Miguel de Lillo (Oviedo) 6. Santa Chamber of Oviedo Cathedral that is divided into: 1. 1.1. Cripta de Santa Leocadia de la Catedral de Oviedo 1.2. Chapel of St. Michael in Oviedo Cathedral 1. Old tower of San Salvador de Oviedo 2. Santa Maria de Bendones (Oviedo) 3. San Pedro de Nora (Las Regueras) 4. Santo Adriano de Tuñón (San...
Scattered architectural and sculptural remains
1. San Andrés de Bedriñana (Villaviciosa) 2. San Bartolomé de Puelles (Villaviciosa) 3. San Martín de Villaviciosa (Villaviciosa) 4. San Martín de Laspra (Castrillón) 5. San Cipriano de Pillarno (Castrillón) 6. San Lorenzo de Cortina (Avilés) 7. San Francisco de Avilés (Avilés) 8. Santiago de Sariego (Sariego) 9. San Román de Sariego (Sariego) 10. St. Thomas Priandi (Nava) 11. Nava Cemetery Chapel (Nava) 12. San Miguel de Bárcena (Tineo) 13. San Pedro de That de Calleras (Tineo) 14. San Martí...
Pre-Romanesque goldsmithing
1. Angels Cross (Oviedo) 2. Cross of Victory (Oviedo) 3. Arqueta o Caja de las Ágatas (Oviedo) 4. Arqueta de San Genadio (Astorga)
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Asturian ( / æˈstʊəriən /; asturianu [astuˈɾjanʊ], [4] formerly also known as the now derogatory bable [ˈbaβlɪ]) is a West Iberian Romance language spoken in the Principality of Asturias, Spain. [5] Asturian is part of a wider linguistic group, the Asturleonese languages.
Asturian or Asturian language is the autochthonous Romance spoken between the linguistic areas of Galician and Spanish (see Figure 1 and Figure 2). It is spoken in the autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias (the area where it is most widely used), in the north east of the Spanish provinces of León and Zamora and in the area of ...
Oct 26, 2018 · A route through Asturian Pre-Romanesque Art is much more than a history lesson. It is an entertaining journey into the past where you will make fascinating discoveries, and where you will enjoy all that the present has to offer: the cities in which some monuments stand, or the wonderful natural and rural surroundings in which others are located.
Asturian Pre-Romanesque is a singular feature in all Spain, which, while combining elements from other styles (Visigothic, Mozarabic and local traditions), created and developed its own personality and characteristics, reaching a considerable level of refinement, not only as regards construction, but also in terms of decoration and gold ...
