The capital of the Principality of Asturias overcomes its origin to year 761, when the benedictine monk called Fromistano, accompanied by his Maximum nephew and few servants of the same order, founded on these earth a monastery dedicated to San Vicente.
The Seat of the Cathedral, exactly denominated of Alfonso II the Chaste one, constitutes the axis of the oldest zone of the city, and until 1930 it was covered with houses, that demolished to emphasize the beauty of the gothic construction. From claustro it is possible to leave to the Coroad of the Bishop, through the Door of the Alms, from whose balcony the General Meeting announced to the Asturian town its decision to declare the war to Napoleón.
A small return to the left takes to the traveller towards the Transit of Santa Barbara, happening before through the Románica Tower, remodelada during centuries XI and XII. Not very far, the set formed by the old monastery of San Vicente and the church of Santa Maria of the Court the primitive place chosen by Fromistano is raised to found the convent. The monastery of San Pelayo goes back to century X, under the invocation of San Juan, changed when the relics of the bishop were traidas from Cordova.
The facade, finished in 1704, style palaciego, must to the benedictine architect fray Pedro Martinez de Cardeña, and the church, of end of the XVI, to Diego de Villa. In a stroll by the old part they cannot lack the streets of San jOse, seat of the Umbrella, Salsipuedes, Mon and seat of Trascorrales, until arriving at the street of the Sun, where is the palace of Revillagigedo. Also it is worth the trouble to arrive until the Greater, host Seat the City council, of herreriano style, whose works began in 1622, with planes of Juan de Naveda.
In order to submerge totally in the most traditional Oviedo it cannot lack a route by the seat of the Fontán, where the market is celebrated from immemorial times and that the place of a lagoon occupies that fué dried in century XVIII. From it is possible to be followed to the street of the Rosal or to be returned here by the streets Rosal, Jesus, Weight, to the seat of Irrigation, where the historical building of the University, that finishes with the old school of Recoletas Orphans, in the street begins San Francisco. The palaces of Camposagrado, today Hearing, Count of Toreno, Valdecarzana and Heredia or the chapel of the Balesquida, in which it venerates the Virgin of the Hope, are others of the most representative enclaves of the city.
The seat of the Escandalera is the neuralgic center of the modern city. From her the famous Uría street, main artery of Oviedo, and the Field are descried San Francisco, main green zone of the city.