Santa Cristina de Lena
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St Christine of Lena is a Roman Catholic Asturian pre-Romanesque church in the Lena municipality of Spain, about 25 kilometres south of Oviedo, on an old Roman road that joined the lands of the platea
Santa Cristina de Lena
View from the outside
View from the outside
Nave and chapel
Asturias
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Asturias, officially the Principality of Asturias, is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. It is coextensive with the province of Asturias and contains some of the territory that was part of
Santa Cristina de Lena
…church in the Lena municipality of Spain, about 25 kilometres (16 mi) south of Oviedo, on an old Roman road that joined the lands of the plateau with Asturias. The church has a different ground plan to a typical Pre-Romanesque basilica. It is a single rectangular space with a barrel vault, with four adjoining…
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 in Asturias are among the oldest churches of Europe, dating to the Early Middle Ages.
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos