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What to see and do in San Martín de Oscos

What to see and do in San Martín de Oscos (Eo-Navia, Asturias): 3 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 1 Curiosities

How far each place is from the centre of San Martín de Oscos

Palace of Mon 3.8 km

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What to see and do in San Martín de Oscos

San Martín de Oscos
Village
San Martín de Oscos, Samartín d'Ozcos in eonaviego, is a concejo of 337 inhabitants at the westernmost end of Asturias, next to the Galician border, which together with Santa Eulalia and Villanueva de Oscos forms the Los Oscos comarca, poorly connected and depressed until the mid-20th century. The primary sector today employs more than eighty percent of workers: in the southern area, with gentle relief and fertile land, cereals and potatoes are grown, while the north, more rugged, is given over to woodland, with chestnut, oak and pine forests. Its rivers, among them the Ahío, the Sotuelo and the Ferreira, belong to the Navia basin. The concejo preserves the Mon palace, from the 18th century with a 16th-century tower, and celebrates the San Martín fair on 11 November.
Palace of Mon
Monument
Baroque palace complex of the 18th century, with an irregular floor plan around a courtyard and a south façade between two square towers covered with coats of arms, gargoyles and balconies; it was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) in July 2006. In this family palace, Romualdo Mon y Velarde was born in 1749, son of the lords of the houses of Mon and Valledor, who would go on to become archbishop of Tarragona between 1803 and 1816 and archbishop of Seville from 1816 until his death in 1819.
Exemplary Village Award of Los Oscos
Curiosity
The Prize for the Exemplary Village of Asturias has been awarded since 1990 by the Princess of Asturias Foundation to the Asturian village that stands out in the defence of its values, its natural surroundings, its historical or artistic heritage, or in communal works and other displays of extraordinary solidarity; it is an award exclusive to the Principality, with a prize fund of around 25,000 euros and, above all, a visit by the Princess of Asturias to the winning locality. In 2016 the jury distinguished a joint candidacy for the first time, that of the three municipalities of Los Oscos, for combining heritage conservation with rural tourism and livestock farming.