🏛️ Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias

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The Foncalada is a fountain of potable water located outside the city walls of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain; it was built by king Alfonso III of Asturias in the 9th century. This building remains the only surviving civil architectural item for public use of the Early Middle Ages. Its name was given after the inscription in Latin: fontem calatam written on it. Built in Pre-Romanesque style, it has been included with other Asturian Pre-Romanesque sites on the UNESCO World Heritage Site List since 1998.

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Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias is a cultural World Heritage site in Spain, in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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