According to the story, pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostela used to stop off at this magnificent wooded meadow, on which the present-day chapel was built. Popes Clement XIII and Pius VI underscored its importance by granting the shrine papal bulls.
This beautiful 18th-century Baroque chapel designed by Francisco de la Riba stands near the village cemetery in Soto de Aller. It has a single nave which houses an altarpiece by the Asturian sculptor José de la Meana. The Gothic stone statue (14th-15th centuries) of the patron saint of Aller is venerated here.
The polychrome statue of the Virgin Mary is medieval in style, with noteworthy folds, presenting a high degree of plasticity, and humanized features in the face, in which a sense of maternal sentimentality prevails.
This is a place of religious and civil devotion where the feast of Our Lady of Miravalles is held every year on 8th September. It is also a historical site, the spot where the people of Aller rose up against French troops during the War of Independence in 1808.
