Mian (Amieva)

Sames is the capital of the parish of Mián, the municipality of Amieva, in the principality of Asturias, Spain. The Iglesia de Santa María is about a kilometer from the town. Sames is located at 220 m (720 ft) above sea level and has a population of 74 inhabitants (INE 2005). It is 82 km (269,000 ft) from Oviedo, the capital of Asturias.

Samartín is a parish in Amieva, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain. It is located 8 km (5.0 mi) from Sames, the municipal capital. The elevation is 340 m (1,120 ft) above sea level. It is 10.41 km2 (4.02 sq mi) in size. The population is 190 (INE 2011). The postal code is 33558.

The Dobra is a river in northern Spain flowing through the Autonomous Community of Asturias.

San Román is a parish in Amieva, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain. It is located 5 km (3.1 mi) from Sames, the capital of Amieva. The elevation is 640 m (2,100 ft) above sea level. It is 7.64 km2 (2.95 sq mi) in size. The population is 17 (INE 2011). The postal code is 33558.

Amieva is a village and a parish in the autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain. It gives its name to the municipality of Amieva in which it is situated. It is 50.21 km2 (19.39 sq mi) in size. The population is 107 (INE 2011). The postal code is 33558. The Iglesia de San Pedro de Vega stands in the village, a rectangular church with a single nave. The western facade has the main entrance, formed by a semicircular arch, with a voluminous steeple of blocks with two apertures for bells. Four winged angels are found at the four exterior corners of the church. The interior is modernized but retains the original work.

Cangas de Onís (Asturian: Cangues d'Onís "valleys of Onís") is a municipality in the eastern part of the province and autonomous community of Asturias in the northwest of Spain. The capital of the municipality is also Cangas de Onís. More than seventy square kilometres of the conceyu form part of the Parque nacional de los Picos de Europa.

Santa Cruz de Cangas de Onís is a small Roman Catholic chapel in Cangas de Onís, the first capital of the Kingdom of Asturias, in what is now northern Spain. It was founded on an artificial mound (a pagan dolmen) by Favila, second king of Asturias, and his queen, Froiliuba. It was begun in 737 and consecrated that same year on 27 October according to its original foundation stone, which has been called the first literary monument of the Reconquista.Santa Cruz originally housed the Cruz de la Victoria, an oak cross supposedly carried by Pelagius, Favila's father, at the Battle of Covadonga. It was probably the first church constructed after the Islamic invasion of Spain in 711.The church was completely rebuilt on two occasions. First in 1632 and again after its destruction in the Spanish Civil War (1936). Then, local authorities decided to uncover the dolmen beneath it, which had been obscured by a church since the fourth century, when the first chapel was put up on that site. Of the original building only the foundation stone survives.

The Santa Cueva de Nuestra Señora de Covadonga (English: the Holy Cave of Our Lady of Covadonga) is a Catholic sanctuary located in Asturias, northern Spain. It is a cave in the Picos de Europa mountains, which gives its name to the parish of Covadonga in the municipality of Cangas de Onís. The name refers to the sanctuary, dedicated to the Virgin of Covadonga, where the first battle of the Spanish Reconquest took place in 718.

The Battle of Covadonga took place in 722 between the army of Pelagius the Visigoth and the army of the Umayyad Caliphate. Fought near Covadonga, in the Picos de Europa, it resulted in a victory for the forces of Pelagius. It is traditionally regarded as the foundational event of the Kingdom of Asturias and thus the initial point of the Christian Reconquista ("reconquest") of Spain after the Umayyad conquest of 711.

The Royal Collegiate church of San Fernando (Spanish: Real Colegiata de San Fernando) is a collegiate church located in the parish of Covadonga, Cangas de Onís, Asturias, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1884.It is the oldest building in the Sanctuary of Covadonga and is located next to the Holy Cave.

Our Lady of Covadonga also named "La Santina" is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the name of a Marian shrine devoted to her at Covadonga, Asturias. The shrine in northwestern Spain rose to prominence following the Battle of Covadonga in about 720, which was the first defeat of the Moors during their invasion of Spain. A statue of the Virgin Mary, hidden in one of the caves, was believed to have miraculously aided the Christian victory. Our Lady of Covadonga is the co-patron of Asturias, and a basilica was built to house the current statue. Her feast day is 8 September, as it is also the autonomic day of Asturias.

The Basílica de Santa María la Real de Covadonga(English: Basilica of Holy Mary, the Queen of Covadonga) is a Catholic church located in Covadonga/Cuadonga, Cangas de Onís/Cangues d'Onís, Asturias, Spain, that was designated as a basilica on September 11, 1901. The temple was designed by the German architect Roberto Frassinelli and built between 1877 and 1901 by architect Federico Aparici y Soriano. It is a Neo-Romanesque church made entirely of pink limestone.