San Vicente of Oviedo

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San Vicente de Oviedo is a church and monastery in the Spanish town of Oviedo. It was founded November 25, 781 by Máximo and Fromestano and dedicated to Saint Vincent (in Spanish: Vicente), a Valencian deacon and martyr. It was the first construction in Oviedo, a city considered to have been founded by Máximo and Fromestano. The church was later transformed into a Monastery following the Benedictine Rule, with twenty-six monks.

The style of the building is Romanesque, although reworked in the 11th and 12th centuries. Its cloister is an official National Historic and Artistic Monument.