Rating
4.4/5 (based on Google user reviews)
Interesting Sites Nearby
Iglesia de Santa María de la Oliva (1,3 km)
Church of San Salvador de Valdediós (7,7 km)
Santa María de Valdediós Monastery (7,8 km)
Church of San Salvador de Priesca (5,5 km)
San Andrés Church (5,9 km)
San Andrés Church (3,2 km)
Church of Santa Eulalia de la Lloraza (6,5 km)
Church of Santa María de Sariegomuerto (4,8 km)
User Reviews
UMBELA SANCHEZ GANCEDO (12 months ago)
The church has a chain that prevents access and therefore being able to see it up close.
The church has a chain that prevents access and therefore being able to see it up close.
Raúl Ramos Solar (2 years ago)
It is always incredible to find a gem like the church of San Salvador de Fuentes in the middle of nature! This temple preserves a founding inscription carved on the north façade that tells that it was consecrated in the year 1031 as a private abbey. The architectural composition existing today corresponds to the reform of the 12th century. It is composed of a rectangular central nave with a smaller rectangular addition. Hours for viewing during the months of July and August: Tuesday and Friday from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. “In the era of M[L]VIIII (year 1021), on the eighth day before the kldas of June (May 25), Diego Pérez, who built this house of the Lord,……” Thus begins the founding deed of this temple of San Salvador, located in Fuentes, rather in the town of El Muriel, in the municipality of Villaviciosa. Access is via the AS-332 highway towards Anayo, just two kilometers from the capital of the Sidra Region. The church is located in the so-called “llosa de la Abadía”, a name that indicates a large area of fenced land populated with fruit trees and… a monastery; Indeed, until the 40s of the 20th century, it was a large orchard belonging to the monastery and dedicated to apple production. During the Civil War the church was burned down and was later restored in 1950. The church was declared a Historic-Artistic Monument in 1931.
It is always incredible to find a gem like the church of San Salvador de Fuentes in the middle of nature! This temple preserves a founding inscription carved on the north façade that tells that it was consecrated in the year 1031 as a private abbey. The architectural composition existing today corresponds to the reform of the 12th century. It is composed of a rectangular central nave with a smaller rectangular addition. Hours for viewing during the months of July and August: Tuesday and Friday from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. “In the era of M[L]VIIII (year 1021), on the eighth day before the kldas of June (May 25), Diego Pérez, who built this house of the Lord,……” Thus begins the founding deed of this temple of San Salvador, located in Fuentes, rather in the town of El Muriel, in the municipality of Villaviciosa. Access is via the AS-332 highway towards Anayo, just two kilometers from the capital of the Sidra Region. The church is located in the so-called “llosa de la Abadía”, a name that indicates a large area of fenced land populated with fruit trees and… a monastery; Indeed, until the 40s of the 20th century, it was a large orchard belonging to the monastery and dedicated to apple production. During the Civil War the church was burned down and was later restored in 1950. The church was declared a Historic-Artistic Monument in 1931.
Lorenzo Miravalles de Aldecoa (4 years ago)
Belonging to the El Palacio de Fuentes complex, it is one of the most prominent Asturian pre-Romanesque symbols.
Belonging to the El Palacio de Fuentes complex, it is one of the most prominent Asturian pre-Romanesque symbols.
Pisadiel (4 years ago)
Romanesque church of San Salvador de Fuentes (1021), in El Muriel, Fuentes (Villaviciosa, Asturies). We would be here before the church of a family monastery of the s. XI, Romanesque -very influenced by Asturian pre-Romanesque-, founded by Diego Pepici and his wife Mansuara; reformed in the s. XII and that in the s. XV appears dependent on Santa María de Villamayor (Piloña, Asturies) and then San Pelayo d'Uviéu. Burned down in the summer of 1936 by the usual sheep and restored in 1950 by the architect Luis Menéndez Pidal. Single nave and rectangular head. Adds of belfry, sacristy and portico (ss. XVIII-XIX). Its processional cross (c. 1150), donated by Doña Sanccia Gundisalvi, was sold (1898) by the pastor of Palacio Palacio by mandate of the diocese - Bishop Ramón Martínez Vigil (1884-1904) - supposedly for the payment of the new Basilica of Covadonga, but that reeks of antiquarian operation, passing through different hands and countries (French and Yankee), donated in 1917 by the banker and collector John Pierpont Morgan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York).
Romanesque church of San Salvador de Fuentes (1021), in El Muriel, Fuentes (Villaviciosa, Asturies). We would be here before the church of a family monastery of the s. XI, Romanesque -very influenced by Asturian pre-Romanesque-, founded by Diego Pepici and his wife Mansuara; reformed in the s. XII and that in the s. XV appears dependent on Santa María de Villamayor (Piloña, Asturies) and then San Pelayo d'Uviéu. Burned down in the summer of 1936 by the usual sheep and restored in 1950 by the architect Luis Menéndez Pidal. Single nave and rectangular head. Adds of belfry, sacristy and portico (ss. XVIII-XIX). Its processional cross (c. 1150), donated by Doña Sanccia Gundisalvi, was sold (1898) by the pastor of Palacio Palacio by mandate of the diocese - Bishop Ramón Martínez Vigil (1884-1904) - supposedly for the payment of the new Basilica of Covadonga, but that reeks of antiquarian operation, passing through different hands and countries (French and Yankee), donated in 1917 by the banker and collector John Pierpont Morgan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York).
