Asturias

Pre-Romanesque church of Santa Cristina de Lena in Asturias When considering a trip to Asturias, in Spain, it has many interesting and attractive places to visit and we already anticipate that it is one of our favorite regions. You will find green and lush mountain landscapes, or very beautiful coastal corners with great beaches, but with many coves.

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Pre-Romanesque church of Santa Cristina de Lena in Asturias Green landscapes, beautiful villages, gastronomy ... but also pre-Romanesque art. The possibility of seeing the best examples of pre-Romanesque art in Spain is, without a doubt, one of the differentiating attractions of a tourist trip to Asturias. In this respect, you have surely heard, and you may even have visited one of the main pre-Romanesque shows such as Santa María del Naranco, in Oviedo.

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Church of San Vicente Serrapio in the Central Mountain of Asturias Within the great cultural heritage of Asturias, which justifies a very different trip through these beautiful lands of northern Spain, Romanesque art also occupies a very prominent place. And among the various samples that you can visit, there is a place that undoubtedly very prominent: I mean the church of San Vicente Serrapio.

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Altarpiece of the Sea of ​​Sebastian Looking at the Jovellanos de Gijón museum On your walk through the historic Cimavilla neighborhood, in Gijón, there is a corner that will catch your attention. It is the palace of the late sixteenth century that is currently the headquarters of the Casa Natal de Jovellanos Museum, the first museum that opened in the city.

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Monastery of Santa María de Valdediós in Asturias You will know the great artistic wealth of Asturias in relation to its heritage of pre-Romanesque architecture, as well as its many examples of Romanesque architecture. But undoubtedly a place where this wealth is combined in the best way is in the Puelles Valley, just 8 kilometers from Villaviciosa.

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Brañagallones in the Redes park in Asturias The most visited place in the Redes natural park, in the Nalón Valley of Asturias, is called Vega Brañagallones. It is a large meadow located in the mountainous massif of this natural park where many traditional livestock huts are concentrated that offers us one of the most beautiful landscapes of it.

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Horreos in Bueño in Asturias If you want to see granaries on your trip to Asturias, it will be very easy, because these traditional constructions are an intrinsic part of the rural stamp. But I will tell you that very close to Oviedo, next to Mieres, in the region of the Central Mountain, you have a town with one of the highest concentrations of granaries in Asturias.

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Church of San Juan de Amandi in Villaviciosa in Asturias Asturias is well known for its pre-Romanesque monuments, but I will tell you that it also has many examples of Romanesque churches. So I could see during one of my last trips that focused on the cultural heritage of Asturias, and during which I discovered the Romanesque church of San Juan de Amandi, in Villaviciosa, of which I speak now.

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Viewpoint in the Natural Park of Networks in Asturias Asturias offers you many attractions to make a tourist trip, but there are some of them that are little known. If you have already traveled to the most popular places in Asturias, such as Gijón, the coastal area of ​​Llanes or the Picos de Europa, you can consider discovering a more recondite and different Asturias.

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Church of Santa Eulalia de Ujo in the Central Mountain of Asturias When you see a Gothic or Renaissance church, it is easy to foresee that the temple can be an evolution of a Romanesque church, which over the centuries has expanded and increased. But in the Central Mountain of Asturias you can see a different evolution of an old Romanesque church, which was renovated as a result of industrial development.

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Well of San Luis in the mining Ecomuseum Valle de Samuño in Asturias The transformation that is experiencing the Nalón Valley in Asturias, and specifically Langreo and its surroundings, involves the recovery of old industrial facilities to become tourist attractions. In this line, just over two years ago I had the opportunity to meet the then project of the mining Ecomuseum of the Samuño Valley, near Langreo, which since the end of June of this year 2013 can already be visited.

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Former cooling tower, current headquarters of Musi Museum of the Ironworks of La Felguera One of the attractions of traveling through northern European countries is the possibility of visiting living museums, where it shows how people lived in the previous centuries. That is the case, for example from Sweden, or even from Germany, where you can see museums with fully recovered country houses and decorated with furniture of the time, and even with actors who personify the supposed residents therein.

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Niemeyer de Avilés Cultural Center in Asturias at dusk The political controversies that the cultural programming of the Niemeyer de Avilés Center in Asturias has caused in recent weeks, may have led you to wonder what the attractiveness of this cultural center is, and even to ask yourself the possibility of visiting it.

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One of the great gastronomic specialties of Asturias are cheeses. And one of the most unknown and, on the other hand, more laureates of recent years is Casin Cheese. It is a specialty that since ancient times has been handcrafted in the houses of the villages of Caso, Sobrescobio and Piloña, in the Nalón Valley, and that only a few years ago has begun to be sold outside the aforementioned Asturian valley .

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