Santa Cristina de Lena (monument) built

852 CE.

Shown on the map at 43.127°, -5.814°.

St Christine of Lena (Spanish: Santa Cristina de Lena) is a Roman Catholic Asturian pre-Romanesque church in the Lena municipality of Spain, about 25 kilometres (16 mi) south of Oviedo, on an old Roman road that joined the lands of the plateau with Asturias.

Text from the Wikipedia article Santa Cristina de Lena, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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