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For this reason, Asturias is one of the Spanish regions with the greatest wealth of rock and prehistoric heritage. Roads, paths and routes are history and tradition The trails, paths, caleyas, channels and routes in Asturias are full of history and traditions. Roman roads built on paths that already existed, caleyas that lead us to unimagined ...
1. Introduction . 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 ...
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Nov 2, 2020 · Asturias, a region in northwest Spain that’s separated from the Castilian Plateau by the Cantabrian Mountains, is a land of contrasts. Once an industrial and mining powerhouse, the area has ...
Region(s) Principality of Asturias (Principáu d’Asturies); Leon (Lleón); Zamora; Miranda do Douro No of Speakers Up to 500,000 have some knowledge of Asturian (see Section 2.2)
Santa María del Naranco (Oviedo/Uviéu). The World Heritage in Asturias is considered as one of the great tourist and cultural attractions of Natural Paradise. Some of the most outstanding cultural monuments and landmarks of Pre-Romanesque Art are part of this wide range, which would never have existed had it not been for the strength of the ...
Their original language can be found in toponyms throughout Asturias, including the name of Asturias itself, which is believed to derive from the Celtic root stour meaning 'river'. Other aspects of Asturian culture have not been Latinized or Hispanicized, such as the music, mythology, and festivals which remain Celtic. Religion
An original culture emerged during the Mesolithic, the Asturian, typical of eastern Asturias and western Cantabria. These settlements could be found in the entrance of caves close to the sea or under shelters, generally near the coast, although they were also found in inland Cantabrian mountains.
