Lena, Asturias
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Lena is a municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain
Spain
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. Its capital, Pola de Lena, has a population of 9,200.

Parishes

  • Cabezón
  • Campomanes (Campumanes)
  • Carabanzo
  • Casorvida (Casorvía)
  • Castiello (Castieḷḷo)
  • Columbiello (Columbieḷḷo)
  • Congostinas
  • Felgueras
  • Herías (Erías)
  • Jomezana (Xomezana)
  • Las Puentes
  • Llanos  (Chanos de Somerón)
  • Muñón Cimero (Muñón Cimiru)
  • Muñón Fondero (Muñón Fondiru)
  • Pajares (Payares)
  • Paraná
  • Piñera
  • Pola de Lena (La Pola)
  • San Miguel del Río
    San Miguel del Río
    San Miguel del Río is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 40.83 km².It is part of the Ixtlán District in the Sierra Norte region.As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 275....

     (Samiguel del Río)
  • Sotiello (Sotieḷḷo)
  • Telledo (Teyeo)
  • Tuiza
  • Villallana (Viḷḷayana)
  • Zureda (Zurea)

  • Main sights

    • Pre-Romanesque church of Santa Cristina de Lena
      Santa Cristina de Lena
      St Christine of Lena is a Roman Catholic Asturian pre-Romanesque church located in the Lena municipality, about 25 km south of Oviedo, Spain, on an old Roman road that joined the lands of the plateau with Asturias....

      . In 1985 it was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
    • Mosaic of Vega de Ciego, discovered in 1921. It was probably from a Roman villa
      Roman villa
      A Roman villa is a villa that was built or lived in during the Roman republic and the Roman Empire. A villa was originally a Roman country house built for the upper class...

      , and is now in the Archaeological Museum of Asturias
      Archaeological Museum of Asturias
      The Archaeological Museum of Asturias is housed in the 16th century Benedictine monastery of Saint Vicente in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain...

    • El Hospitalón (16th century)
    • Baroque Palacio de Faes, at Carabanzo



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