Countless they are the festejos of Asturias. They are famous the pilgrimages, good known as prau" "parties, for the the great quantity of small towns together to the characteristics of their nature, a great majority was carried out in grasslands, and although the number has descended and its location has passed to asphalted squares they continue being visit reason. It is necessary to highlight the "Descent Folclórico of Nalón" In the Town of Pola of Laviana where the participants should go up their crafts or coaches with diverse and variopintos topics for the highway stops later to carry out the slope for the River Nalón. original Picture
The first image of Santina got lost for blame of a fire that destroyed the church that housed it inside the Cave (the word Covadonga in fact means Cave of the Mrs., Cova Dominique). This image, of style románico, was part of a wooden structure that hung in the air, surrounded by the cascade of the river Deva. Fair or year later and given the religious importance and also politics of the sanctuary, the cathedral of Oviedo donated the current Virgin's image. This image that was baptized by its historical past as the "Virgin of the Battles", is a size policromada covered with robe and mantel. However it was conceived to be shown without the robe and east mantel to which we make reference it is colored on the wood in a cyan one that one adorns with red flowers aligned vertically.
mestas of with this located ten kilometers of the capital, onis cangas in the cangas highway to cabrales and it is about a beautiful town that it still conserves places like that of the picture.