Santa María del Naranco

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.