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Santa MarÃa del Naranco
Photo: José Luis Pascual Arias
It is considered the masterpiece of the Asturian art. It was built during Ramiro I´s reign in the Naranco´s hill.
It was a Royal Residence, with baths and attached halls in the ground floor, and a hall for celebrations with beautiful widowed balconies in the upper floor. In the XI Century, the palace became a church, and it has worked as such until 1930, when it recovered its original appearance.
There is a half barrel vault in the whole building, except for the side halls of the lower floor that are covered with wood.
The lower floor has a wide central body covered with a Barrel vault, and it contains a baseboard, a circular windows, entry doors and ventilation´s hollows.
The upper floor is rectangular and it is covered by a canted barrel vault composed of six transverse arches that are leaned on cantilevers.
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Address and telephone number
Telephone number: +34 676032087
Opening times
Octuber to March:
Tuesday to Saturday: 10:00 - 13:00 and 15:00 - 17:00.
Sunday and Monday: 10:00 - 13:00.
April to September:
Tuesdays to Saturday: 9:30 - 13:30 and 15:30 - 19:30.
Sunday and Monday: 9:30 - 13:30.
All visits will be guided except on Mondays in the morning that will be open and free of charge.
Last visit begins half an hour before closing time.
Visits start in Santa MarÃa's monument near visitor's reception.
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