Spain - Church of San Salvador de Valdediós

In 1985, the World Heritage Committee registered the site "Asturian Pre-Romanesque Architecture" in the World Heritage List (312). It consisted of three sites (Santa María del Naranco, San Miguel de Lillo and Santa Cristina de Lena). The entry was made on the basis of criteria (i), (ii) and (iv), with a favourable report from the Advisory Body ICOMOS. In 1988, the State Party requested that the site be extended to include the Historic Centre of Oviedo (312 [2]). ICOMOS considered then that the candidature should be reformulated, as the historic centre includes many more values from different periods to be considered a simple extension of the site registered, which are limited only to the Pre-Romanesque period. Accordingly, the World Heritage Committee decided to consider the proposal, though only registering the city's three most significant Pre-Romanesque monuments; that is, the Cámara Santa, San Julián de los Prados and La Foncalada, based on the same criteria as in the other three monuments already registered.