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Villaviciosa

Country:
Spain
State:
Oviedo
City:
Villaviciosa
Type of Location:
Multiple
About Location

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Places to Visit
How to Reach

By air

Nearest airports to Villaviciosa are sorted by the distance to the airport from the city centre
  Morgal Las Asturias Airport (distanced approximately 33 km)
  Asturias Peinador Airport (distanced approximately 49 km)
  Leon Airport (distanced approximately 100 km)
  Ila Da Chilonzuene Airport (distanced approximately 130 km)
  Santander Airport (distanced approximately 130 km)

By roads

  A-8 Cantabrian motorway : Baamonde - Gijon - Villaviciosa - Llanes - Torrelavega - Solar - Bilbao - San Sebastian
  A-64 motorway Oviedo-Villaviciosa : Villaviciosa - Alto de la Fumareda - Lieres - Oviedo
  N-632 road parallel to the A-8 : Canero - Cudillero - Nalon Walls - Soto del Barco - Aviles - Gijon - Villaviciosa - Colunga - Caravia - Ribadesella
  AS-255 Road-Piloña Villaviciosa: Villaviciosa - Santa Eulalia - The Crossroads - Pintueles

Key places to visit
Church of Santa Maria de la Oliva, Church of Santa Maria, Church of San Salvador, Church of San Salvador de Fuentes, St. Andrew's Church

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Places to Visit

Church of Santa Maria de la Oliva

The church of Santa Maria de la Oliva town is in the Asturian of Villaviciosa .It is a temple built in 1270. Although at that time a new style, the Gothic, began to be used in other places, this church has elements of Romanesque late.Romanesque manufacturing plant can be highlighted, and covers the different types of ornamentation. Stresses the rose above the church entrance.The decoration of the church include the carved capitals of the door.

Church of Santa Maria

The Church of Santa Maria de Lugas, in the council of Villaviciosa has its origin in the thirteenth century, but in time Romanesque preserves both covers and the Arc de Triomphe, since the church was completely rebuilt in the S. XVII.The temple is divided into a Latin cross and large polygonal sanctuary. It has a sacristy adjoining the north wall and in the nineteenth century was added a portico of columns, surrounding the church.

Church of San Salvador

The church of San Salvador is located in the town of Priesca, northeast of the town of Villaviciosa. It is one of the copies of the architecture Romanesque Asturian little late. It was declared a National Monument on February 5 of 1913 .There must have been a lapidary inscription now defunct, whose text is known however, reported that the temple had been consecrated in the era CMXXI, ie, in the year 921 .

Church of San Salvador de Fuentes

Church of San Salvador de Fuentes was built in 1021 and has a single nave and triumphal arch with capitals. San Juan de Amandi dates from the first half of the twelfth century and retains good buttresses and windows, and magnificent capitals historian.

St. Andrew's Church

St. Andrew's Church in Bedriñana, founded in the ninth century and retains original lattice windows.
 

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