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Climate and weather
Oviedo experiences a pleasant climate
for most of the year, with temperate
Winters in which the temperature rarely
gets below freezing, and mild Summers.
Its mean annual temperature reaches
13ºC and, in general, the weather
conditions rarely gets too extreme.
History
The thousand-year-old History of
the city of Oviedo is inextricably
joined to its role as Capital City
of Asturias, beginning with The mediaeval
Kingdom of Asturias, then the Principality,
later barely a Province until our current
Autonomous Community.
Little could the monks Máximo
and Fromestano –alledged founders
of the city in the year 761- that their
choice of the slope of a hill in the
central area of Asturias will turn
out to be the embryo of over one thousand
two hundred urban, commercial, military
and ecclesiastical life. That primitive
settlement would soon be furnished
with a small church, dedicated to St
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