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Mar 29, 2024 · Asturias, comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) and historic region of Spain that is coextensive with the northwestern Spanish provincia (province) of Asturias. It is bounded by the autonomous communities of Cantabria to the east, Castile-León to the south, and Galicia to the west.
Dec 10, 2019 · This autonomous region of Spain lying along the Bay of Biscay, dense with trees that run up hillsides, dotted by wild marshland, and scalloped with tidy beaches, isn’t located between Madrid and ...
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Most of Asturias’s beaches are sandy, clean, and bordered by steep cliffs, on top of which it is not unusual to see grazing livestock. The key features of Asturian geography are its rugged coastal cliffs and the mountainous interior. The climate of Asturias is heavily marked by the Gulf Stream.
Popular “Celtic” motifs reproduced in tourist shops and revivals. Most are taken from archaeological artifacts and stone carvings found throughout Galicia, Asturias, and Cantabria. Nearly all modern Celtic revival festivals in Spain began in the early to mid-1990s, and they have gained momentum since then.
Asturias (/ æ ˈ s t ʊər i ə s, ə-/, Spanish: [asˈtuɾjas]), officially the Principality of Asturias, is an autonomous community in northwest 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 .
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Asturias has never lost its essence, its identity, the wealth of its past, its immense historical and prehistoric legacy -it has five prehistoric caves declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO- and its heritage and tradition coexist in harmony with a dynamic present, in a region where one can enjoy, among many other pleasures, a unique gastronomy...
Counties. There are four provinces of Ireland: Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster. The Irish word for this territorial division, cúige, meaning "fifth part", suggests that there were once five, and at times Meath has been considered to be the fifth province. In the medieval period, however, there were often more than five.
