# Exterior view [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ARCHITECT, Spanish]() - Date: 0801-0850 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary Only fragments have survived of the Pre-Romanesque Christian architecture in northern Spain from the time of the kingdom of the Asturias. The most significant monuments are found near the old capital of Oviedo. Here King Ramiro I \(842-850\) built a palace complex with audience chamber at the Monte Naranco, which was extended by his successor Ordoño I with the construction of a church, San Miguel de Lillo \(in Asturian Samiguel de Lliño\). Both buildings feature a remarkable wealth of architectural articulating elements, such as pilaster strips, blind arches, and cornices, and many ornamental shapes in relief. At each end of the auditorium \(12 x 4 meters\) a spacious solarium was created. View the <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/support/plans/zzzarchi/09c/5/naranco2.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=400,height=600'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">cross section</a> of the building. ## Related artworks - [Alcázar]() - [Capitals in the cloister]() - [Cloister]() - [Cloister]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()