OVIEDO (Asturias) Information:
ASTURIAN ART, World Heritage |
Seven buildings in Oviedo have been declared World Heritage sites.
They are the most representative, but by no means the only, examples
of what is known as Asturian art, a style that assimilates previous
artistic influences with a personality and originality all its own,
and which developed during the ninth and tenth centuries. In the old
part of the city stands the only civic monument belonging to this
style: Fuente de la Foncalada, a stone shrine protecting a fountain.
In the Monte Naranco, now part of the city, stand the two most venerable
buildings of Asturian art, built in the mid ninth century. The first
is Santa Maria del Naranco, for a time a church, though it was built
as a palace for Ramiro I (842/850). It has en elongated design, with
two storeys; the upper floor contains a windowless room with barrel
vaults, lit by two porticoes of large cambered arches resting on columns
decorated with rope motifs. The second building is San Miguel de Lillo,
a church with three naves separated by columns, and with a famous
stele with circus motifs and stylised figures.
San Julian de los Prados, in Oviedo, Santa Cristina de Lena, near
Felgueras, and San Salvador de Dios, next to Villaviciosa, are also
all major elements of Asturian art.
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