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   Oscar Niemeyer International Cultural Centre

   A cultural centre at Avilés designed by Oscar Niemeyer and opened in 2011 — his only work in Spain, given to Asturias in thanks for the Prince of Asturias prize. White curved volumes on an open plaza, on the far bank of a river from a former steel town.

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   Church of San Juan Apóstol y Evangelista

   A pre-Romanesque church in Asturias, built in the ninth century under the Asturian kingdom and inscribed as World Heritage as part of that group of buildings.

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   Cave of Candamo

   A cave above the Nalon valley whose Palaeolithic paintings and engravings — deer, horses and bison worked into a great wall of carvings — were made some twenty thousand years ago and more. UNESCO added it in 2008 to the listing of the painted caves of northern Spain.

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   Palacio Valdés Theatre

   A theatre in Avilés in Spain, built in the early twentieth century and named after the writer Armando Palacio Valdés.

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   church of Santa María (Soto de Luiña)

   A church at Soto de Luiña in Asturias, built in the eighteenth century on the coastal route of the Camino de Santiago.

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   Iglesia de San Nicolás

   A Romanesque church in Avilés in Spain. Twelfth-century work survives in it, which makes it one of the older buildings in the town.

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   Iglesia de Santo Tomás de Cantorbery

   The old church of the fishermen's village of Sabugo, standing outside the medieval wall of Aviles on the Plaza del Carbayo. Raised in the 13th century and dedicated to Thomas Becket, it is a listed cultural property on the coastal road to Santiago.

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   Iglesia de San Francisco

   A Franciscan church in Avilés in Spain. Its thirteenth-century Romanesque doorway survives, and the remains of Pedro Menéndez, the townsman who became the first Spanish governor of Florida, lie inside.

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   Castillo de Gauzón

   The remains of a medieval castle on the Asturian coast. The kingdom of Asturias built it to hold the sea, and excavation has established its walls and towers.

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    Iglesia de Santiago

    A rural Romanesque church of the 13th century at Arlos in Llanera, a single nave with a straight chancel built of rough local stone. Its plainness is typical of the country churches of Asturias, and it is listed as a cultural property.

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   Philippe Cousteau Anchor Museum

   A museum at Salinas in Asturias. It commemorates the ocean explorer Philippe Cousteau by gathering anchors from around the world and setting them out along the shore.

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   Monastery of the Holy Saviour

   A Benedictine monastery in Asturias. It was founded in the Middle Ages, and its cloister and church survive.

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   Balsera Palace

   A palace in Avilés in Spain. It was built in the modernista style in the early twentieth century and now serves as a public facility.

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   Doriga Palace

   A palace at Salas in Asturias. It began as a medieval tower house and was later enlarged into a residence.

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   Museum of Avilés Urban History

   A museum of urban history in Avilés, covering the changes this port town has gone through since the Middle Ages.

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   Camposagrado Palace

   A Baroque palace in Aviles raised on medieval foundations and held by the Marquises of Camposagrado until the 19th century, when it became a military barracks. The city council restored it, and it now houses the School of Art of the Principality of Asturias.

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   Church of San Martín de Luiña

   A church at San Martín de Luiña in Asturias. It stands on the coastal route of the Camino de Santiago and keeps its eighteenth-century work.

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   Iglesia de Jesús de Nazareno

   A church in Asturias dedicated to Jesus of Nazareth. In Holy Week a procession carries the image through the village.

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   Maqua Palace

   A palace of the early twentieth century in Avilés, built in the modernista style and showing the architecture of the years when the town was growing on steel.

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    Capilla de los Dolores

    A baroque chapel in Avilés in Spain. The Holy Week processions set out from it, and the carved wooden figures used in those rites are kept inside it the rest of the year.

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