St. Andrew’s Chapel of Coyanca

Located in the site known as El Canto de Coyanca. It is accessed from the AS-239, Luanco-Gijón road, and at P.K. 6,600, the EC-6, Perán-Tabaza road, is taken to the right, after being driven on the latter at about 4.700 m to take an asphalted path and after 300 m to reach the Ermita.

This Ermita was burned in the Spanish Civil War and rebuilt after the end of the dispute. Its conservation status is good and it was last restored in 2000. It dates from the 10th century and was used as a school at the end of the 19th century.

The patron of Coyanca is San Andrés on 30 November, who celebrate a moon inside the city. On 8 September, they also celebrated the Virgin of the Guide.

As a curiosity of the area, not far from where the Ermita is located, in the ‘Cantera de la Priola’, located in the Coyanca-Perlora Valley, numerous gold coins were found that were buried in a mud container in that quarry. The finding was fortuitous, as it was due to one of the many blasting in the area in the middle of the 20th century. These coins were brown in the first century, after Christ and according to studies by archaeologists and historians, they belonged to the Romans, stating that their burial could have taken place at that time, as it was very common at that time to hide money underground. These coins are currently at the Archaeological Museum of Oviedo.

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