Landmark buildings in Oviedo

Asturian Pre-Romanesque architecture marks the beginning of Oviedo’s monumental heritage and forms one of the most important ensembles of Early Medieval European art. Its churches and buildings reveal the distinctive character of the Kingdom of Asturias.

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   Santa María del Narancoc. 848 · Monte Naranco
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   San Miguel de Lilloc. 848 · Monte Naranco
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   San Julián de los Pradoss. IX · Santullano
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   Foncalada Fountains. IX · Central Oviedo

Oviedo’s historic centre preserves an important group of churches, monasteries and religious buildings reflecting the city’s development from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period.

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   Oviedo Cathedrals. XIII-XVI · Historic centre
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   San Tirso el RealMedieval origins · Plaza de San Tirso
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   Monasterio de San VicenteHistoric complex · Plaza de Feijóo
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   Monasterio de San PelayoHistoric complex · Plaza de San Pelayo
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   San Isidoro el Reals. XVI-XVIII · Plaza de la Constitución

Oviedo preserves an outstanding group of palaces, aristocratic residences and institutional buildings illustrating the development of the historic centre from the late Middle Ages to the Baroque period.

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   Palacio de la RúaLate 15th century · Late Gothic
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   Palacio de Camposagrados. XVIII · Baroque
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   Palacio de Torenos. XVII · Baroque
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   Palacio de Velardes. XVIII · Baroque
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   Palacio del Duque del Parques. XVIII · Baroque
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   Oviedo City Halls. XVII · Plaza de la Constitución
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   University of Oviedos. XVI-XVII · Historic centre
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   Former Hospice · Reconquistas. XVIII · Baroque

Urban expansion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries transformed Oviedo with theatres, institutional buildings, railway stations and bourgeois residences that reshaped the cityscape.

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   Teatro Campoamor1892 · Eclecticism
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   Palacio de la Junta General1910 · Eclecticism
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   North Railway Stations. XIX-XX · Uría
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   Casa Masaveuc. 1882-1885 · Cimadevilla
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   Dean Payarinos Housec. 1900 · Eclecticism
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   Casa Conde1904 · Eclecticism
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   Casa Camilo de BlasLate 19th century · Jovellanos

During the early decades of the 20th century, architecture in Oviedo incorporated Art Nouveau decorative elements, especially visible in commercial and residential buildings in the city’s expansion districts.

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   Círculo Mercantil1912-1916 · Art Nouveau and Eclecticism
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   Casas del Cuitu1913-1917 · Art Nouveau
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   Villa MagdalenaFirst third of the 20th century · Bourgeois residence

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, buildings with cleaner geometry and distinctly modern ornamentation began to appear in Oviedo.

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   Casa Blanca1929 · Manuel del Busto
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   Casa Chile1930s · Enrique Rodríguez Bustelo

The architecture of the 1930s and the post-war period introduced new forms, structures and building programmes. Oviedo preserves notable examples of this transformation.

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   Instituto Alfonso II1934 · Racionalismo
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   National Social Insurance Institute1934-1942 · Racionalismo
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   El Termómetro1936-1940s · Racionalismo
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   La Jirafa1952-1956 · Modern Movement

The route concludes with major cultural and conference facilities that illustrate the city’s recent development and new approaches to urban architecture.

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   Auditorio Príncipe FelipeLate 20th century · Cultural architecture
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   Exhibition and Conference Centres. XXI · Santiago Calatrava