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Monastery of Santa Maria
- Villanueva de Oscos
- Heritage
The history of Villanueva de Oscos is closely linked to the Monastery of Santa María, at the entrance of the capital of the council. This Monastery, considered one of the great jewels of Asturian heritage and classified as a Historic-Artistic Monument, was born Romanesque and grew Baroque.
It was founded in the 12th century by Friar Martín de la Vega and later, in 1203, it was transferred to the Cistercian order, becoming an autonomous monastic community.
In this monastery came to live in its heyday, between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries, up to twenty Benedictine friars. In addition, it was also a center of studies attended by the most important people of the region.
In the 18th century, with the arrest of the abbot for joining the Carlist troops, the monastery was definitively exclaustrated and an important page in the history of Villanueva de Oscos was closed.
Basic information
- 985 626 219
- oficinadeturismo@villanuevadeoscos.es
- La Villa - Villanueva de Oscos
Schedule
Guided tour every day at 6:00 p.m. except Wednesday. Appointments must be made in advance.
Those who have made an appointment must be at the door of the Monastery Church at that time.
Prices
1 euro
What to see?
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Las Minas
- Villanueva de Oscos
- Mines
Recently, the Town Council of Villanueva de Oscos, with the collaboration of the Principality of Asturias, has recovered and rehabilitated the mines of this municipality.
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Mina do Salgueiro
- San Tirso de Abres
- Mines
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Carnaval de Verano
- San Tirso de Abres
- Fiestas y Eventos
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Los Castros
- San Martín de Oscos
- Heritage
The castros are population centers of an eminently strategic and defensive nature. They are found throughout the northwest of the peninsula (castreña culture). These settlements arise in the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, reaching its peak during the Second Iron Age.
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Ethnographic Museum of Esquíos
- Taramundi
- Museum
Esquíos is a village in the council of Taramundi inhabited for centuries by families of ferreiros, the Lombardía family, who emigrated from Italy to the Basque Country and later to Asturias.
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Hiottoko artistic forge and cutlery workshop-shop
- Santa Eulalia de Oscos
- Craft
Traditionally, in Santa Eulalia de Oscos, knives have been made for more than a century. Nowadays Jorge (knifemaker) and Keiko (metal craftswoman) maintain this tradition developing this ancient craft to which they add part of the Japanese ancestral wisdom.
