Palacio de los González Villar

Located at Bo Villar No 3, Guimarán. The site is accessed from the AS-19, Gijón-Avilés, P.K. 6,300, takes the CE-6 Serín road to the left, and at 2.100 m it moves along an asphalted road to the left, leading to the Palais and driving about 900 m upwards.

It dates from the 17th century, solar Casa González Villar, a stretch of Posada, owns Capilla from the same century. The building consists of main stone walls and partitions of masonry, with ground floor and first floor. At the time of the “Inquisition” and on the ground floor, there was a torture chamber called the forking cell. Initially, the entrance to the building was on its northern side, currently on its south-west side.

There were three images on the grid in the Capilla, one of which could be the one in the St Stephen’s Church of Guimarán. There was also a stone that reportedly served Carlos I to sit when he landed in Tazones, which was donated to the Archaeological Museum of Oviedo. It is said that this chapel was built with the remains of the Eermite of Santa Eulalia de Candás.

The last religious celebration in the Capilla was on 16 October 1869, where the marriage link between Urbano Suárez and María León, both residents of Guimarán, took place.

In the middle of the 18th century, the Palace was bought from González Villar by José Hevia and Menéndez Valdés, Marqués del Real Transporte, coinciding with the disappearance of the González Posada family from the parish of Guimarán. The latter family consisted of nobles and clerics, whose surnames appear in the century in various places in Asturias, mainly in Gozón.

Ownership of the Palais passed to the heirs of the Marqués until it was acquired in 1906 by Manuel Suárez and Casimiro Suárez. The property after other heirs reached María Luisa Menéndez González, the wife of a nephew of the woman of Casimiro. Both the Palais and the Capilla were rehabilitated in 1997 and have a heraldic shield. Their conservation status is very good.

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