World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites ...

In the 9th century the flame of Christianity was kept alive in the Iberian peninsula in the tiny Kingdom of the Asturias. Here an innovative pre-Romanesque architectural style was created that was to ...

Mysteries of a medieval Kingdom. Ancient yet undiscovered, the dramatic landscape of Asturias reaches into coastal caves and mountain caverns that hold the secrets to thousands of years of ...

Asturias history: Moorish, medieval and Celtic traditions. Historical city centres filled with architectural gems are a highlight of Asturias, Spain, while elsewhere you'll find shrines, forts ...

At the time, Oviedo/Uviéu was the capital of the Kingdom of Asturias and the King’s pilgrimage inspired many others to make the journey to Santiago de Compostela.

Oviedo, Asturias: Woody Allen’s favourite town. Simon Calder. ... Go back 11 centuries and the kingdom of Asturias was one of the isolated patches of Spain free of Moorish control.

22COM VIIIB.2 - Extension: Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias (Spain) 1985 Report of the 9th Session of the Committee: 1985 09COM XA - Inscription: Churches of the Kingdom of the ...