- Title Oviedo Asturias Centre
- Address Address: C/ San Vicente, 3 ■ 33003 - Oviedo/Oviéu
- Locality Locality: Oviedo/Oviéu
- Phone Phone: 985 215 405
- Period Period: Gothic (16th century)
- Management Management: Public
In this same place in the year 761, the abbots Máximo and Fromistano founded the first building in the city, a monastery dedicated to San Vicente, under the invocation of the rule of San Benito. In the 18th century, the monastery experienced great economic splendour and intellectual renown with the presence of Father Feijóo, who held the post of abbot. In the 19th century, the cloister and other rooms were used as the Archaeological Museum of Asturias.
The four sides of the ground floor of the cloister open onto the garden through moulded semicircular arches and are covered with beautiful ribbed vaults, which are complicated at the corners. The upper gallery is set up with columns with footing capitals and a stone enclosure. The number of arcades is doubled on the upper floor, while their size is reduced.
The church of the former monastery is today the church of Santa María la Real de la Corte, between the Archaeological Museum and the monastery of San Pelayo. It was designed in the mid-16th century by the master builder Juan de Cerecedo, El Viejo, as a single-nave church. The barrel-vaulted nave is perforated by side chapels that open between the buttresses, while the transept is divided into three bays and covered with a vaulted ceiling. Access to the church is through a large arch, closed by Baroque wooden grilles, which opens onto a portico.
In the transept is the tomb of the Benedictine Father Feijóo, abbot for many years of the monastery of San Vicente, who died in 1764. At the foot of the church is the old monastic orchard, nowadays converted into the Plaza de Feijóo, with the statue of the scholar in a pensive attitude.
Tuesday to Saturday: 10.00-13.30 a.m. and 16.00-18.00 p.m.
Sundays and public holidays: 11.00-13.00 h
Mondays closed