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Oviedo, the capital city of the Principality, combines the ancient history of over twelve centuries of events with the vitality and drive of the 21st century.

Although it was founded between the 8th and 9th century, a special role in which was played by the monks Máximo and Fromestano and the Asturian monarchy Fruela and Alfonso II, its privileged location in the centre of the region, with many different mountains and hills surrounding it, made this land attractive five centuries before our era to pre-Roman settlers and, subsequently, to Romanised settlers, as can be seen by the "castros" (fortified settlements) such as Llagú.

The capital city of the kingdom in the times when the Asturian monarchs wanted to make Oviedo the new Toledo, then conquered by the Christian monarchs, the city has been a witness and setting to the main historic events of the last millennium, as can be seen in its streets. The city has been worthy of being declared World Heritage by UNESCO with five of the main treasures of Pre-Romanesque art: Santa María del Naranco, San Miguel de Lillo, San Julián de los Prados, la Cámara Santa and the Foncalada fountain.

Pilgrimages, wars and revolutions have taken place in a city that now, with its 214,000 inhabitants, faces the challenge of globalisation with significant cultural baggage and widespread progress in terms of urban planning, equipment and facilities built over the past seven years as the main assets of its decided commitment to both present and future.