San Vicente de Oviedo is a church and monastery in Oviedo

Oviedo

Oviedo is the capital city of the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain. It is also the name of the municipality that contains the city....

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Spain

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Founded November 25, 781 AD, by Máximo and Fromestano, the monestery was dedicated to Saint Vincent (in Spanish: Vicente), a Valencian

Kingdom of Valencia

The Kingdom of Valencia , located in the eastern shore of the Iberian Peninsula, was one of the component realms of the Crown of Aragon. When the Crown of Aragon merged by dynastic union with the Crown of Castile to form the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Valencia became a component realm of the...

 deacon and martyr. It was the first construction in Oviedo, a city considered to have been founded by Máximo and Fromestano. The church was later transformed into a monastery following the Benedictine Rule, with twenty-six monks.

The style of the building is Romanesque

Romanesque architecture

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, although reworked in the 11th and 12th centuries. Its cloister is an official National Historic and Artistic Monument.