San Nicolás Church, Laviana, Spain

San Nicolás is a Romanesque-style church in the diocese of Villoria. The 12th century original church was rebuilt in the 16th and 18th centuries, but it still has the original main portal.

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David Morán Barbón (3 years ago)
I grew up, I live in Villoria and I grew up playing in and around the church field. What I like least about the church was the iron lock that the priest Ramón, who was from Galicia, put up and left us here when he retired and left for Galicia.

Iglesias y Capillas de Oviedo (4 years ago)
Cardinal Fray Ceferino González y Díaz Tuñón, who was born in Villoria in 1931, was baptized in this church.

Sheyla (4 years ago)
Precious

Geek Mountain (5 years ago)
Romanesque History in Villoria.

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