15 Fascinating Facts About Asturias - Spain’s Last Bastion
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- 🎥 Uncover the wonders of Asturias! Join us as we delve into its rich history, vibrant culture, and captivating heritage through these 15 fascinating facts! 🇪🇸
00:25 - ⛏️ Roman Ingenuity - Discover the ancient secrets of Asturian gold mining…
01:31 - ⚔️ Reconquista Birthplace - A pivotal movement in Spanish history began…
02:37 - 🏛️ Unique Art - Explore the distinctive architectural style found only here…
03:42 - ⚱️ Saint's Tomb - Uncover a legendary discovery in Asturian soil…
04:45 - 🎶 Celtic Music - Hear the melodies that keep ancient traditions alive…
05:41 - ⚓️ Maritime Heritage - Dive into a legacy of seafaring and celebration…
06:50 - 🏭 Industrial Era - See how a small region sparked a new industrial age…
07:55 - 👑 Monarchy Restored - Find out how Asturias influenced Spanish royalty…
08:54 - 🗺️ Wordwide Communities - Trace the Asturian footprints around the world…
09:53 - 💔 War Impact - Understand the lasting effects of a major conflict…
10:52 - 📜 Language Preservation - Discover efforts to keep an ancient language alive…
11:55 - 🤼♂️ Traditional Sports - Get to know the unique games played for generations…
13:02 - 🍲 Heirloom Recipes - Taste the history in every traditional dish…
14:06 - ⛪ Cultural Emblem - Visit a site of immense cultural significance…
15:06 - 🏞️ UNESCO Sites - Explore the world-renowned treasures of Asturias…
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What do you love the most about Asturias? 😍
The cider! And the siderias dotting the landscape. And the fabada ☺️
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The relatively low level of tourist invasion by spanish standards.
Me and my family
My grandparents came from Luarca.
Thank you for such a beautiful video.
As a 6 ye wast old child, I spent a year on the farm in Luarca in Asturias. As an American, I have many fond memories growing up in that region and to the state, have family and friends there. Having revisited in 2012, it’s a beautiful region with beautiful people and amazing architecture.
Thanks for the video. I hardly ever see Asturias talked about. The north of Spain is so lush and interesting and much different from the rest of Iberia. It’s like a well-kept secret. Shh!
Absolutely! So glad you enjoyed it! 😃
I think Santiago De Compostela is actually in Galicia not Asturias.
@ErulluvatarAn asture kingdom is a myth. It NEVER EXISTED.
@@alvarezabonce Of course it did lol
@@ces5263 How sure are you?
@@alvarezabonce Quite certain, so much so that the kings of Asturias, who all had their capital in Asturias and later in León, say so. In addition to proclaiming himself Imperator Totius Hispaniae. I'm waiting to see what you invent or misinterpret to deny. I guess you'll say something stupid like it was the kingdom of Galicia or something like that. If that is the case, I am sorry to tell you that although Muslims said that Pelayo became king in the territory of Gallaecia, they refer to the Roman province where the Conventus Asturum was located, since their knowledge of the Iberian Peninsula comes from Roman documents. translated into Arabic. If this is the argument it is quite weak. It would basically be like stating that the American continent is really India because the Spanish originally called it that and we all know that they are two different continents.
@@alvarezaboncepremio a la burrada del año. Parte de Galicia, norte de León y parte de Cantabria, pertenecieron al Reino de Asturias. Ni un ápice de Asturias, perteneció al Reino de Galicia. 🙄. Estudia un poco anda.
Galicia is close to Asturias in culture but it's not the same...
Long live ❤Astúrias. Defenders of Christianity. Without it Iberia would be a musilim nation
Europa sería islámica,era una cruzada,los paramos en iberia,Lepanto(la mayor batalla mundial,naval y en muertos)destruida a los turcos,(imperio otomano)
And probably the rest of Europe too; without the victories of Pelayo in Covadonga in the 722, and Martel in Poitiers in the 732 who knows...
Bagpipes have been traditionally played in many areas of the Balkans, which have never had any Celtic influence.
The Asturian bagpipe is of Atlantic type, same family as the Scottish, french or gallegan.
My grandfather was from Asturias....
Most of those cartoon people look nothing like the men in Asturias.
Those AI Asturian men are pretty fit especially those beefy wrestlers. Everyone there looks tall, good looking and in very good shape.
Those cartoons are not Asturian dudes.. Asturian men are fine featured and pretty....and often milky white pale.
Great channel
You are very kind! 😊
Interestingly it shares its uniqueness with many other local cultures.
Beautiful, creative, smart, and very talented People! Very descriptive and informative documentary. Loved the way they were globally cultured, and Faith aware, yet they kept their Christian faith alive and many of their culture heritages, and language. The industralization and neutralization periods they adjusted to and did remarkably well, I've heard with very prolific outcomes , and in many different educational and business successful areas. The hope and renewal efforts to restore and place things in order, after difficult times serve them to have a title of well disciplined and hardworking group of people! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you, Edward. 🙏 Glad you enjoyed it!
Well, thanks for you admiration. I encourage you to visit us and enjoy all the amenities this land has to offer, I do not know for how long. There are just a couple of punctualizations I can refrain from commenting. First that the Asturian language has been a dead language for centuries. It was already dead when in the 18th century Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, father of the Spanish enlightenment, roamed over the most remote corners of the intricate Asturian geography in a horse carriage, collecting words already then in disuse. What some speak today is a made up language full or archaisms with grammar invented in the 1980's and all fueled by left-wing politicians and their proverbial voracity for public money. Second, that there are no efforts being made to restore nor to place anything in order here. All the industries have been dismantled and no alternatives have been provided. What once was an economic engine is now a subsidized and aged region. Successive socialist governments have closed absolutely everything to the point that we have a modality of tourism called industrial archeology. They have killed our economy and proudly exhibit the embalmed corpse. All the young people had to migrante for there are no jobs to be found here. I can safely predict that by the 22th century only bears will stand on two legs on this exuberant strip of land. So enjoy it whilst you still can.
@@UntoldHistoryYT Let me suggest also that if this is an educational channel you should explain to people what means the concept "Celtic" for people seem to be very confused. If we Asturians are Celtic then all European peoples are Celtic, and if not all European peoples are Celtic then we aren't Celtic neither. Hep them differentiate between a branch of the Indo-European language family of the metal ages and a cultural and political invention of the late 20th century. It would be interesting and responsible to do so.
Los britanicos siempre con sus secreciones,en fin,viva irlanda,escocia,,libres y fuertes
¡Exacto! Este vídeo es un cúmulo de errores sospechosamente con tinte NAZI-onaLI$TA$ realizados con el único fin de crear agravios entre diferentes regiones españolas y sus gentes que debo rectificar: #0:50 La mayor parte de las explotaciones mineras de oro funcionan en Roman veces se llevaron a cabo en otra región al sur del Principado de Asturias: el antiguo Reino español de León en un sitio llamado: Las Médulas. #3:51El descubrimiento de la supuesta tumba de Santiago se realizó en la región española ubicada al oeste del P. de Asturias: el antiguo Reino español de Galicia donde se encuentra Santiago de Compostela. #4:51 La música y otras costumbres de origen celta también se mantuvieron al oeste del P. de Asturias en el antiguo Reino español de Galicia #5:34 La resistencia de la cultura celta en el P. de Asturias y en el resto de la Ibérica La península no era tan grande ni tan fuerte ya que hoy no conservan su antigua lengua celta como en Gales o Irlanda; pero una lengua iberorromance (#11:07) o dialecto bajo-latino llamado "bable" sigue en grave peligro de extinción con muy pocos hablantes #8:33 Esta información es incierta porque es necesario precisar qué son las Cortes democráticas (Parlamento Provisional) ubicado en la ciudad libre (No ocupada por las fuerzas napoleónicas) de Cádiz, en el Sur de España, donde se realizaron la mayoría de los movimientos políticos para aceptar y traer de regreso a España a un Rey tan controvertido como Fernando VII que había previamente entregó (abdicó) su Reino de España a Napoleón #9:23 También hubo otras comunidades de inmigrantes españoles de otras regiones españolas que influyeron positivamente con su esfuerzo y trabajo en toda la América Hispana durante los últimos 200 años después de la independencia de la diferentes países hispanohablantes, desde México hasta Argentina. La prueba de ello la encontramos en los distintos dialectos del español americano influidos indistintamente por inmigrantes procedentes del sur o del norte de España. #10:41 No sólo el P. de Asturias; pero otras regiones de España también sufrieron los mismos problemas y traumas a consecuencia de la última Guerra Civil. #15:46 ¡La Cueva de Altamira, con sus mundialmente famosas pinturas rupestres, no está en Asturias!; Se encuentra situada en la región española de Cantabria en el municipio de Santillana del Mar.
Asturias was founded as a sanctuary for Visigothic Christian nobles. The people are mainly celt-iberian and go back as far as Neantherdal days. Asturias is one of eight Celtic territories including Galicia.
We are not Celtic, the kelts did visit the Astur tribes friendly and surprisingly they survived, unlike all others. They left some cultural imprint that's all. Only Rome really conquered, and it took seven legions leaded personally by a Caesar. We are Romans.
@@ManuelSalasM Yes, we are celtics. And obviously you are not from Asturias to say something so absurd like that. And the Romans subjagated us and did NOT CONQUER US and left no DNA imprint.. Our tribes are not even ROMAN but celtic from Austria like the Austeres. We were used as military ports and left us alone for the most part.." The Astures were subdued by the Romans, but were never fully conquered" wikipedia.. I can tell you are an outsider by multiple things, incuding your surname that is not really found in this region. You are probably that jealous guy under multiple names AGAIN who resents our CELTIC DNA and culture. Your lack of education completely sounds like a Latin American mestizo and not someone actually from Asturias.
@@ManuelSalasM TROLL...And obviously you are not from here to have the flag you do up. We have a totally different flag. And Salas is not an Asturian name and your eyes look mestizo like Chinese and not round like Asturian.
@@ManuelSalasM Yes, we are Celtic. You are not even from Asturias to say something so ridiculous like that. First, of all, we have our own flag and don't use the one you so proudly sit in front of. And if you really were Asturian you would know why. Second, , we were never conquered by Romans. Third, your eyes are Amerindian and not like the people in Asturias.
@@asturiasceltic3183 No there is nothing Celtic in Asturias. NOTHING. I am a full-blooded Asturian. A Salas from the council of Salas, the hause that in the 13th century was custodian of the primitive St James way as it passes through the council. You should know the name, for that hause with the Valdés from Valdés gave Spain a conqueror of Peru, a chancellor of the emperor Charles V, a grand inquisitor with Philip III and the founder of the university of Oviedo. And I am a Muñiz, sons of Munio, from the council of Carreño, that were cited on the first chronicles of the reconquest in the 10th century as very noble, loyal and brave. it is imposible to be more Asturian than me. And no we are no Celtic scum, we are ROMANS
Pues si es la parte mas autoctona y luchadora,repasa tu adn, probablemente tengas descendencia nuestra,si eres celta ,de gales,irlanda,escocia,menos ingles
A mistake the tomb of St.James discovered in Santiago de Compostela in Galicia no Asturias and the Camino no born in Asturias in all case happens for Asturias
Por favor fue el rey de Asturias quien reconquistó Galicia y hizo la catedral,lea antes de opinar,reino de asturias
James the Apostle, also known as "James the Less" the brother of Jesus, was killed by beheading in Jerusalem by order of King Herod Agrippa I in 44AD. How could they transport his body several centuries later to Asturias? This is just legend like all of the Constantine era stories spread by the Catholic church. Furthermore, there was a documentary that claims to have found James' tomb and ossuary in present day Jerusalem.
@@tuberobotto señor en Santiago no está el apóstol está prisciliano,otra cosa es que por motivos de estrategia militar se creará un lugar santo,una vía europea de la cristiandad,el rey oyó que habían aparecido en campos de estrellas, Compostela,unos huesos,y fue el primer peregrino inaugurando el camino primitivo,que va desde Asturias a santiago,a partir de ese momento los asturianos contamos con la ayuda de francos,galeses,irlandeses,balones,teutones,etc una cruzada contra el islam,el origen de santiago es del Reino Asturias
El camino de Santiago,primitivo es el que parte de Oviedo, que es el que emprendió el rey de Asturias Alfonso II poco tiempo después del "descubrimiento" de la tumba del apóstol en Santiago, dentro del reino de Asturias. Otra cosa es el camino francés.
@@tuberobottoclaro, como la sábana santa de Turín,lo importante, para los que hemos hecho el camino es el camino de fé,construido por millones de peregrinos desde la edad media.
The guitar continues sounding in the background. It is totally misplaced and reminds us about the eternal cliches of Spain. Perhaps a Scottish bagpipe would be more suitable....
Yes, that would have been perfect with the bagpipes. However, there are Asturian bagpipes and they sound sweeter and more melodic than the Scottish bagpipes.
It would be better if he used an Asturian bagpipe, an instrument originally from the Middle East that the Roman legions brought here in the first century BC and we have been very fond of since then
@@ManuelSalasM There you go again with your misinformation.. Arabs, Mena and Romans were our enemies and we were never conquered by them, YOU FRAUD. and it is easy to google we were never conquered by Romans or those other invaders. "However, as it had been for the Romans and Visigoths, the Moors did not find mountainous territory easy to conquer, and the lands along Spain's northern coast never became part of Islamic Spain."-Wikipedia
@@ManuelSalasM Stop bothering and following me around.. It bothers you that Asturias is Celtic. And everyone can look it up. Even the Irish reply to me and call Asturians their cousins and how we look so similar. Even the author said bagpipes would be more appropriate because of our Celtic culture and DNA. And we get invited by the Irish for St Patrick's to bagpipes because we are a Celtic territory.. And everyone knows this as a fact. You are not from Asturias otherwise you would know this and it would not bother you we are Celts..All your crying and complaining will never change this fact. It just makes you look uneducated and obviously not from the Northwest but a resentful outsider TROLL imposter filled with weird and undesirable DNA not found in Asturias.
@@asturiasceltic3183 Wikipedia 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Good intentions but it is full of inaccuracies
So many immigrants history will change again in all of spain
Cabrales ok ,fabada, great Cider typical but not great
10:07 ...Why would there be a African man with a fro in 1930s Asturias during the Spanish Civil War? If you want to choose an actual victim of the Spanish Civil War depict an Asturiano like the one in my thumbnail from the Picos of Asturias, who did die in the Spanish Civil War when a firing squad went after him for writing pamphlets against Franco and Fascism.
Fred 7 really retrograde
I heard absolutely nothing about Asturians, who they are, who are there ancestors.For example why the name of the King is Pelay(Pelasgus) like the name of original inhabitants of whole southern EU from Portugal to Balkans, Pelasgians? ....
You are right.. He says nothing about how Asturians evolved from Neantherdals who mixed with Celtic people (from South Bavarria-Bohemia), thus the term Celt-iberian for people from Asturias.
Asturias was not "Spain last bastion". It was the last bastion of Christianism as state religion. Al-Andalus was Spain too. A nation is not defined by its religion.
Actually, a unified nation is defined by one language, common culture and religion. BTW, Spain is not a nation, Spain is country. But a colonial country as it changed the name of its oppression region (Castela) language to fake a common language, to fake being a nation. Galicia, Catalonia are nations, forced into regions by the “central” government. Spain recognized Palestine (which is the result of arab colonization of the region) but does not recognize Catalonia which had a referendum to be independent - why? Because Spain is not a nation, it’s a colonial state (country). Nation is a very well defined political science term, and Spain does not fit it.
@@gueviemoncor328Then Portugal it's too a colonial country because Madeira Island it's outside their territory. Moreover, Algarve had to a muslim identity steal it by the portuguese...
Nations are frequently defined by their religion. The only reason Canada exists is the Catholic religion and its conflict with protestantism. A fact we are not taught in schools, you can look around the world and see how religion shapes the fabric of most cultures. It could be said that it is the MOST important factor
Al-andalus was not Spain wtf.
Or it's language, or it's cultural identity, or it's political landscape, or it's economy.. Wait maybe al Andaluz was not part Spain as your making it out to be.
Actually, a unified nation is defined by one language, common culture and religion. BTW, Spain is not a nation, Spain is country. But a colonial country as it changed the name of its oppression region (Castela) language to fake a common language, to fake being a nation. Galicia, Catalonia are nations, forced into regions by the “central” government. Spain recognized Palestine (which is the result of arab colonization of the region) but does not recognize Catalonia which had a referendum to be independent - why? Because Spain is not a nation, it’s a colonial state (country). Nation is a very well defined political science term, and Spain does not fit it.
Cope, Free Palestine
Then Portugal it's not a nation too, but a country because all the national identity was taken from the old Galicia Kingdom and from Asturias Kingdom.
Zionist detected...😂
BAM 💥💥💥💥
Agreed, Cope. Free Palestine. By the way, more Catalans now want to remain part of Spain.
…what in the hell does that mean, “Spain's last bastion”? 🫤
Um, I mean… "bastion" of what, Spanish culture? When you say "Spain's last bastion", and no other information is given, it does sound that way…as if it’s the country’s last “place” or purest location. So it’s best to be more specific in titles like that… I know this channel is one of those that is devoted to A.I. content, strangely, but some editing by a conscious person is needed.
Mira,bastión,por muchos motivos,la resistencia a otras tribus,a roma,y el resto de guerras,es la reserva natural,ni francos,ni nórdicos,astur celta,casi no hay descendencia romana,
Exactly. By this logic you could say with equal reason that Granada was the last bastion of Spain.
@@dizdirasamiraGranada was not Spain at that time.
@@ManoloAlvarez-pz4lz Eso es ridículo. Absolutamente todo en Asturias es romano.
@@ManuelSalasM romanos es Gijón,las mestas,las fortalezas de Astorga y Lugo,pero la arqueología demuestra zonas ,donde estaban los pessicos,y otras tribus que eran nómadas y organizaban la resistencia,los pueblos germánicos,suevos,vándalos y alanos,