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Church of Santiago de Arlós

Llanera, Oviedo, Asturias

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Church of Santiago de Arlós

Monument · Llanera, Oviedo, Asturias

A single-nave Romanesque church in a barely altered rural setting in the concejo of Llanera, on one of the branches of the Way of St James that ran from Avilés to Las Regueras. It has been dated to 1151, the year in which the bishop of Oviedo, Martín II, donated it to the monastery of San Vicente, although other authors place it as late as the 13th century, as an archaising work related to the churches of Serín, in Gijón, and Valliniello, in Avilés. Built with modest materials typical of rural Asturian Romanesque, it stands out for the sculpted decoration of its doorway, triumphal arch and apse, with capitals carved with plant motifs, knights with falcons, confronted birds and lions. It retains part of its original corbels, although those of the nave were lost in a 19th-century renovation that lowered the walls.

Photo: Ramón (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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