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Church of Santa María de Soto de Luiña

Cudillero, Avilés, Asturias

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Church of Santa María de Soto de Luiña

Monument · Cudillero, Avilés, Asturias

Declared a Monumento Histórico-Artístico (a Spanish heritage-protection category), it has a Latin-cross plan with three naves and as many chapels, a semicircular apse and a three-tiered square tower at the foot. It forms a group with the rectory house, with which it once made up an old pilgrims' hospital on the coastal route of the Camino de Santiago, and it was built over an earlier chapel raised beside a spring. The main altarpiece, baroque and probably the work of José Bernardo de Mena, is dedicated to Our Lady of Humility; since 2015 it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the Camino de Santiago de la Costa, and it preserves a silver processional cross of 1609 attributed to the Valladolid goldsmith Juan de Nápoles Mudarra.

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