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It is a martyrdom church formed by two rectangular superimposed naves, the lower one
corresponds to the original construction and it is covered by a barrel vault.
The upper one consisted of a nave plus an apse although the nave was modified
in the 12th century. It is a clear precedent of the structure of St. María del
Naranco.

Its construction can be put in relation to the expansion, which undertakes the Kingdom of Asturias, in the middle of the 8th century towards the neighboring lands, as recorded in the chronicles of Alfonso III. He played a role of great relevance in the defense, control and consolidation of the Christian territories, at the beginning of its expansion.

To 20km of Burgos we find this hermitage which origin seems to be early Christian, reconstructed possibly in the first repopulation of this zone, in times of Alfonso III the Great one, since in spite of a series of important modificacines that suffered in the first times of Romanesque art in Spain and in the 18th century it preserves multiple details that demonstrate his great relation with the Asturian architecture.

Cangas de Onís was the first capital of the Asturian kingdom. The church of the Holy Cross (Santa Cruz), built upon a dolmen in 737 by the king Favila, in a place where there were already remnants of a previous church, according to a foundational inscription, today disappeared, is the most ancient building from this period that we know. Destroyed on several occasions, the place has now a hermitage built in the 20th century, but the dolmen still stands.

Built in irregular ashlars that includes reused parts, it consists of a single rectangular nave and a straight apse with the door on the south side, although the remains of an old access from the west are preserved, now blinded. The whole deck is made of wood and tiles. Its interior lacks all ornamentation, but it is very interesting that of the exterior of the apse formed by arches of half point on capitals and columns, which recall those that exist inside the apses of some Asturian churches.

It is the only civil construction built for public utility services in Asturian art that has been preserved. It was built by order of Alphonse the Third in a place near the wall where a drinking water fountainhead stood. It has a rectangular plan, 4 metres wide with a shrine shape and a central semicircuar arch. Built with ashlar sandstone,

In the environment of the kingdom of Pamplona we find some buildings that show a clear Asturian influence, possibly generated by the good relationship between García Jiménez and Alphonse the Third, married to his daughter Ximena. In Irracheta an excellent granary on ashlar is preserved, supported by ten semicircular arches, with a structure that recalls St. María del Naranco, although it is covered with a flat saddle roof.

Destroyed by a fire in 1513, only there remains the general structure and the exterior of the top part of the apse. It had plant basilical of three naves separated by three props squared to every side. Very interesting the window of three round arches point framed in an alfiz who, though it has made think that was added later in Mozarabic epoch, nowadays thinks that it is original since other windows exist with alfiz of epoch visgoda and Asturian.

A small three nave basilic with three apses for a convent founded by Alphonse the Third in 891. The naves are separated by four semicircular arches upon pillars without imposts. The naves are covered with a wooden roof and the chapels of the apses by a barrel vault.

Small rectangular hermitage possibly built in the 15th century in which elements of one or several  High Medieval churches were reutilised, among which a magnificent horseshoe arch points out, of Visigothic trace, supported by impost capitals with a decoration that recalls the Ramiro art style, upon columns decorated and composed bases. It is also very interesting an Asturian type window with excellent openwork lattice in stone.

Built at one Km far from Oviedo, it has a three nave basilical plan, separated by semicircular arches upon square pillars with wooden saddle roof in the central one. It has a transverse nave, higher than the central one and with the same kind of covering, straight three vaulted apse chevet with a secret chamber upon the central one and a lobby with two lateral chambers. It keeps remnants of paintings of great interest.

La iglesia de San Lorenzo de Cortina destaca por su ventana geminada altomedieval que adorna la fachada oeste de la capilla actual. Es un bloque de piedra caliza rectangular con las esquinas superiores redondeadas, dos vanos y ancho parteluz cuadrangular. La jamba derecha es ligeramente cóncava. Los vanos coronan en dos anillos de contorno sogueado.

With a three nave basilical plan but in sheer Ramiro style, very diffrent to the ones of the previous period. Only the third part remains as the rest was buried in a landslide in the Middle Ages. It is wholy vaulted with a very complex system. The naves are separated by columns; it keeps a stand upon the portico and a very rich decoration.

It was originally a family community and duplicity founded in the 9th or 10th century, which was cited in a document of 972 and converted into a Benedictine monastery in 1073. Its structure, basilical with three naves separated by arches of half point on pillars and with flat cover, and three rectangular apses finished in a flat testero, of which the central one is of two sections and of greater size than the lateral ones, is clearly that of the Preroman basilicas asturian and corresponds to the description of the X century.

With a basilical plan of three four – section naves, separated by semicircular stilted arches upon square pillars with wooden saddle cover on the central one and a shed cover on the lateral one. It has a straight three vaulted apses chevet with a secret chamber upon the central one and a lobby that possibly had two lateral chambers.

Although
it was consecrated in 921, due to its characteristics it is considered to
belong to the period of Alphonse the Third. It has a basilical plan with three
naves with three separated sections by semicircular arches in brick upon square
pillars, with flat tripartite chevet; the central chapel somwehat higher with
enclosed round of arches upon columns with capitals and rest of paintings.

Built by Alphonse the Third for his retirement, it was consecrated in 893. It has a basilical plan with three naves covered by a barrel vault of four sections separated by semicircular arches upon square pillars, with a flat tripartite chevet; the central chapel somewhat higher; a stand over the lobby and the central portico. Windows wth dry cap and rests of paintings inside. It is one of the most interesting buildings in Spanish Pre Romanesque.

It consists of a single rectangular nave that includes the elevated presbitery with an iconostasis of Mozarabic type and a stand, also elevated, at the portico. It has four rectangular annexes: a major chapel, a lobby and two lateral vestries. The whole covered with a barrel vault and buttresses. Decoration from various periods: Visigothic, Ramiro and Mozarabic.

Its plan is a rectangle that included a nave, a chevet and a lobby, tripartite and symetric. Besides, it had two lateral porticos of which there are still the remnants of one of them on the southern side. The whole church was covered with a wooden roof, except on the central apse that had a brick made barrel vault.

It is a recreational palace formed by two superimposed naves of rectangular plan, both vaulted, with two window galleries, one on each side, in the upper one, that form two rooms in the lower one. Covered with barrel vaults upon bonder arches that correspond to buttresses in the outside and an excellent sculpted decoration in great harmony with the building, meaning a change of style with regard to the previous monuments.