Cangas

Cangas de Onís stands beside the Sella in eastern Asturias, near the mountains of Covadonga. Tradition remembers it as an early seat of the Asturian kingdom founded around Pelayo's resistance to Muslim rule in the eighth century. A stone bridge spans the river with a high central arch; despite its customary name of the Roman Bridge, its surviving form is medieval. The nearby sanctuary of Covadonga preserved the memory of the events associated with the beginnings of the kingdom.