Chapel of the Holy Cross and dolmen
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We are at the Chapel of the Holy Cross, in Contranquil. On a dolmen from around 3000 BC, King Favila had a chapel built in the year 737. That is what the Principality of Asturias records.
The present chapel and mound are a reconstruction: the building was destroyed in the Civil War. Under the floor of the hermitage you can see the megalithic burial chamber. Both the chapel and the dolmen were declared a monument in 1931.
We go down towards the Market Square and the Cortés Palace.
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