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Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias
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How it came to be
In the 9th century the Kingdom of the Asturias in northern Iberia kept Christianity alive and developed its own pre-Romanesque architecture. Outside the capital, Oviedo, the church of San Julián de los Prados was built under Alfonso II between 791 and 842.
Ramiro I had a royal hall built on the slope of Mount Naranco, consecrated in 848. Now Santa María del Naranco, its long barrel vault on transverse arches anticipates Romanesque building. San Miguel de Lillo, about 100 metres away, also dates from his reign, and the hall became a church of St Mary in the 12th century.
The churches of the Kingdom of the Asturias were inscribed in 1985, and in 1998 the site was extended to the Cámara Santa of Oviedo Cathedral, Santa Cristina de Lena and the La Foncalada water structure.
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