Holy Saviour of Priesca is a Roman Catholic pre-romanesque church, located in Priesca, next to Villaviciosa

Villaviciosa

Villaviciosa may refer to the following places:* Philippines** Villaviciosa: a municipality of Abra* Spain** Villaviciosa: a municipality of Asturias** Villaviciosa de Odón: a municipality of the province of Madrid...

, Asturias

Asturias

The Principality of Asturias is an autonomous community of the Kingdom of Spain, coextensive with the former Kingdom of Asturias in the Middle Ages...

, northern Spain

Spain

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. Only a few kilometres from the Church of San Salvador de Valdediós

Church of San Salvador de Valdediós

Holy Savior of Valdedios is a Roman Catholic pre-romanesque church, located next to Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain.The church stands in the Boides valley , the place where Alfonso III of Asturias was detained when he was dispossessed by his sons, and where there used to be an old convent governed...

, it is amongst the latest examples of Asturian architecture.

Architecture

With Alfonso III dead and the kingdom of Asturias divided among his sons, Asturian pre-romanesque architecture entered its last stage. Consecrated on September 24, 921, it has the architectural and decorative reference of the model laid down by the Church of San Julián de los Prados

San Julián de los Prados

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In the 17th and 18th centuries, it underwent several reconstructions, altering especially the structures adjoining the vestibule, by communicating them with the side aisles.
In 1936, during the Spanish civil war, the original roof burned but it kept most of its sculptured decoration and original paintings.