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| Spain is a country situated in the southeast of the european country. |
| The spanish mainland has a total area of 493.486 kilómetros squared, also including the 4.992 kilometres squared that the Balearic islands have, the 7.447 kilometres squared of the canary archipielago and the 32 kilometres squared of the cities Ceuta and Melilla. |
| According to the last numbers of the World-wide Organization of Tourism, it is the second world-wide tourist destiny, with 49 million and a half of annual visitors. | |
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| Oviedo (or in the Asturian language Uviéu) is an Asturian city and council dating from medieval times (the eighth century), and it is the capital of the Principality of Asturias (Spain). It has 215,371 inhabitants. It is the region’s commercial and business capital, and its administrative and university centre. Legend has it that king Fruela I of Asturias set out hunting one day with his friends, and they stopped off to eat in an idyllic spot – somewhere near where the city of Oviedo now stands. During their conversation, a question was put to him: Where are you going to start building the city to house the court?, to which the king replied in Latin: Ubi edo, which means «where I eat». The city of Oviedo was erected on a hill that the Romans had called Ovetao. Its inhabitants – the ovetenses – are familiarly known as carbayones, and they have a cake called a carbayón that is typical of the city. |
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 Santa María del Naranco. (A UNESCO World Heritage Site) A pre-Romanesque church standing three kilometres away from Oviedo on the southern flank of Mount Naranco; it was originally a palace for king Ramiro I. |
| The Way of St. James – pilgrim routes. . The Way of St. James (the ‘Camino de Santiago’), classed as a World Heritage facility by the UNESCO) |
| Oviedo Cathedral. . This Gothic-style cathedral was built on a church consecrated to Saint Salvador. (Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site) |
| Elevated granaries (‘hórreos’). These are granaries built of wood or stone and standing on pillars. |
| The International Descent of the River Sella. This is held over the first weekend in August, on the stretch of the river between Arriondas and Ribadesella – a 20 km course along the River Sella. |
| The Archaeological Museum of AsturiasIts collection includes pieces from the Palaeolithic period, various coin and ethnographic collections, two rooms devoted to the Roman period, and a further two to pre-Romanesque art, plus another on Romanesque art and another on Gothic art. The cell used by the monk Padre Feijoo is also on exhibit. |
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| The local dish par excellence, in Oviedo and in the rest of Asturias, is the bean stew calledfabada, which is made using haricot beans (‘fabes’) and various pork sausage meats such as the red chorizo and the black morcilla. |
| Another traditional dish, albeit one of uncertain origin, is the ‘pregnant bread roll’ Bollo Preñado (bollu preñáu), – which is a bread roll with a chorizo-sausage filling. |
| The ‘desarme’, is a culinary festivity held on 19 October each year in restaurants and private homes, the usual offerings being chick peas with cod, spinach and tripe, and rice pudding. |
| Los Carbayones’, are the typical sweet pastries of the region. They consist of three folds of puff pastry filled with a mixture of egg, crushed almonds, cognac or sweet wine, and sugar, to which is added a topping of syrup made from water, lemon juice, sugar and cinnamon. |
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Cider, is the hallmark local drink. It is made from fermented apple juice, and its origins may go all the way back to Roman times.
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| Calle Uría, is clearly Oviedo’s main shopping area, featuring the headquarters of banks and insurance companies as well as department stores and boutiques. |
| After the initial sweeping pedestrianisation schemes, other nearby streets also became major shopping venues, chief among them being calle de Gil de Jaz Independencia, Doctor Casal, Covadonga, Melquiades Álvarez and the street called Calle Nueve de Mayo, housing the shopping centre Centro Comercial Salesas. |
There are also a number of department stores and shopping centres: the Centro Comercial Los Prados, located in the Teatinos district on the site of the former abattoir beside the A-66 motorway, and the Centro Comercial Parque Principado (Paredes de Siero), which attracts flocks of Oviedo shoppers every day despite being on the border with Siero council.
Lastly, mention must be made of the future shopping centre – probably the El Corte Inglés department store – which is to be sited in the Princesa Letizia Trade Fair complex, in the Buenavista district. |
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| Cuurency: The Euro. |
| Oficial language: Spanish |
| Population: Aproximately 44 milion habitants in Spain. |
| Electricity: 220 V. The plugs are 2 round pins. |
| Forms of payment: All the credit cards in the majority of establishments. |
| Time schedule of the banks:The usual time schedule is from 9am a 2pm, from Monday to Friday. |
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