For the eponymous sanctuary, see Santa Cueva de Covadonga.
For the Cuban village, see Covadonga (Aguada de Pasajeros).
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Covadonga" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(January 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish. (August 2012) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
View a machine-translated version of the Spanish article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 5,018 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Wikipedia article at [[:es:Covadonga]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|es|Covadonga}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.
Parish in Asturias, Spain
Covadonga/Cuadonga
Parish
Country
Spain
Autonomous community
Asturias
Province
Asturias
Municipality
Cangas de Onís
Covadonga (Asturian: Cuadonga, from cova domnica "Cave of Our Lady"[1]) is one of 11 parishes in Cangas de Onís, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in Northwestern Spain. It is situated in the Picos de Europa mountains.
With a permanent population of 58 (2008), it consists essentially of the "Real Sitio de Covadonga"/"Real Sitiu de Cuadonga" also known as the "cradle of Spain", a pilgrimage site dedicated to Our Lady of Covadonga/Cuadonga and commemorating the Battle of Covadonga of 718/722.
^Juan Gil Fernández, José L. Moralejo, Juan Ignacio Ruiz de la Peña, Crónicas asturianas, Universidad de Oviedo, 1985,
p. 203.
Covadonga (Asturian: Cuadonga, from cova domnica "Cave of Our Lady") is one of 11 parishes in Cangas de Onís, a municipality within the province and autonomous...
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...
Club Deportivo Covadonga is a Spanish football team based in Oviedo, in the autonomous community of Asturias. Founded in 1979 it plays in Segunda Federación...
The Lakes of Covadonga (el. 1134 m.) (Spanish: Lagos de Covadonga) are composed of two glacial lakes located on the region of Asturias, Spain. These lakes...
The Santa Cueva de Covadonga ("Holy Cave of Covadonga") is a Catholic sanctuary located in Asturias, northern Spain. It is a cave in the Picos de Europa...
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...
Amigos de Covadonga is a non-profit civil association, created in Asturias (Spain). It was created with the purpose of spreading and promoting devotion...
building in the Sanctuary of Covadonga and is located next to the Holy Cave. Asturian art Basílica de Santa María la Real de Covadonga Catholic Church in Spain...
The schooner Virgen de Covadonga, was a schooner built in Spain and launched in 1859. During the the Spanish-South American War (1863-1866), it was captured...
Oppa among his ranks is generally accepted. A battle was fought near Covadonga (in monte Auseva or in monte Libana) in which Alkama was killed and Oppa...
very complete Vuelta", and welcomed that the inclusion of the Lagos de Covadonga climb on the final stage, stating "to end in such a famous location is...
Lagos de Covadonga, a 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) ascent with an average gradient of 7.4%. The first rider to the top of the Lagos de Covadonga climb was...
today's national park, centered on the Lakes of Covadonga. The Parque Nacional de la Montaña de Covadonga, as it then was called, had an area of 169.25...
altered his course and positioned Covadonga behind Lamar. Grau commanded Independencia to block the path of Covadonga and Lamar. Observing Condell's actions...
near Poncebos, south of Arenas de Cabrales. The shrine to the Virgin of Covadonga and the mountain lakes (Los Lagos), near Cangas de Onís: Legend has it...
beginning of the Reconquista is traditionally dated to the Battle of Covadonga (circa 718 or 722), in which an Asturian army achieved the first Christian...
of Kyburg Count of Haut-Rhin Count of Goriza Count of Namur Count of Covadonga Count of Girona Count of Osona Count of Besalú Count of Anjou Count of...
Mountains, in north-west Spain. After defeating the Moors in the Battle of Covadonga in 722, Pelagius was proclaimed king, thus founding the Christian Kingdom...
Ermesinda, daughter of Pelagius, who founded Asturias after the Battle of Covadonga in which he reversed the Moorish conquest of the region. He succeeded...
Global Information
