Sanctuary of the Virgin of Miravalles

According to history, on their way to Santiago, pilgrims used to stop at this magnificent wooded field on which the present chapel was later built. Popes Clement XIII and Pius VI highlighted the importance of the Sanctuary by granting papal bulls.

In Soto de Aller, near the village cemetery, stands this beautiful 18th-century Baroque chapel designed by Francisco de la Riba. It is a single-nave building with an altarpiece by the Asturian sculptor José de la Meana. The Gothic stone image (14th-15th centuries) of the Patron Saint of Aller is venerated here.

The polychrome image of the Virgin is of medieval aesthetics and the folds, of considerable plasticity and the humanised features on her face, in which a maternal sentimentality predominates, stand out.

This is a place of religious and civil devotion where the feast of the Virgin of Miravalles is celebrated every year on 8 September. It was also a historical place, the scene of the Allerano uprising against the French troops during the War of Independence in 1808.