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Culture and society Heritage. Asturians are directly descended from the Astures, who were Celtic inhabitants of the northwest Iberian Peninsula before the conquest of the peninsula by the Romans which resulted in their Latinization.
Roman roads built on paths that already existed, caleyas that lead us to unimagined villages, the Camino de Santiago and the Camino de Reliquias, and mountain trails that have seen dozens of human exploits and sporting feats. The routes of Asturias are history and tradition.
Asturias offers you a stroll through museums, cultural itineraries and World Heritage Sites to discover its history and traditions. The culture in Asturias immediately conveys that it is a place with a deep-rooted identity, inhabited by people with a unique and friendly personality.
Paleolithic. Asturias was inhabited by humans since the Lower Paleolithic (100,000 years ago), from the Acheulean to the Mousterian.
Contemporary cultural practices in Asturian have flourished since the 1970s. As discussed above, Asturian, like the other languages in Spain different from Spanish, was repressed during Francisco Franco’s dictatorship (1939–1975).
Semite, name given in the 19th century to a member of any people who speak one of the Semitic languages, a family of languages spoken primarily in parts of western Asia and Africa. The term therefore came to include Arabs, Akkadians, Canaanites, Hebrews, some Ethiopians (including the Amhara and the Tigrayans ), and Aramaean tribes.
Main article: History of Asturias. See also: Asturian architecture. Asturias was inhabited first by Homo erectus, then by Neanderthals. Since the Lower Paleolithic era, and during the Upper Paleolithic, Asturias was characterized by cave paintings in the eastern part of the area.
