The Astures or Asturs, also named Astyrs, were the Hispano-Celtic inhabitants of the northwest area of Hispania that now comprises almost the entire modern autonomous community of Principality of Asturias, the modern province of León, and the northern part of the modern province of Zamora, and eastern Trás os Montes in Portugal. They were a horse-riding highland cattle-raising people who lived in circular huts of stone drywall construction. The Albiones were a major tribe from western Asturias. Isidore of Seville gave an etymology as coming from a river Astura, identified by David Magie with Órbigo River in the plain of León, by others the modern Esla River.
Conventus Asturum
Gallaecian-Asturian gold torc (4th to 2nd century BC)
Asturias, Asturian: Asturies ) officially the Principality of Asturias, is an autonomous community in northwest Spain.
Roman thermae in Gijón
Processional Cross, ca. 1150–75, it comes from a 12th-century church fifty miles east of Oviedo. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Santa María del Naranco, ancient palace of Asturian Kings, 842 AD. Many churches of Asturias are among the oldest churches of Europe, dating to the Early Middle Ages.
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos