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- Name of the work: Villa de Tazones and Casa de los Hevia – European cultural itinerary Ruta de Carlos V
- Location of the work: Tazones and Villaviciosa
- Date of completion of the work:
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- Investigator: Noelia Fernández García
- Search on the map: Itinerary
Work collected in: Fernández García, Noelia. De la reconstrucción a la renovación. La arquitectura religiosa durante el franquismo en Asturias (1938-1965). Gijón: Trea, 2021.
Seaside village with a long fishing tradition, it has traditionally been considered the place where Carlos de Borgoña landed on his first trip to Spain. This fact has indisputably marked the recent past of the town, as this was one of the most relevant factors taken into account for the declaration of Asset of Cultural Interest, in its modality of Historic Site, in the year 1991.
Studies carried out by experts, on dates immediately prior to the creation of the file that would lead to its declaration, describe it as "a seafaring town of interest as a whole", in which the picturesqueness of its homes seems to stand out, since the majority follow the Asturian house typology, with a ground floor and a first floor with a corridor, and specifically the coastal one, since they are built in ashlar and partially or totally painted in white or bright colours.
The town had a parish church, dedicated to San Roque, which had been burned down during the civil war and was completely rebuilt. The first reconstruction project, in a historicist style, was signed by the architect Mariano Marín in 1945, and it seems that ignorance about the aforementioned reconstruction led to the temple being taken for a 17th century church.
The patrimonialization process of this complex began in the mid-1980s, with the declaration file being initiated on April 11, 1985, with the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts being the entity in charge of issuing a favorable report for the declaration of this Asset of Cultural Interest. However, and as has happened on many occasions, the initiation of the file did not mean the declaration itself, which would not take place effectively until May 1991. And it is the extract from the file of the declaration of a Historic Site the one that offers us relevant information as long as the data that caused Tazones to be protected and its more careful conservation are listed thanks to its confirmation as BIC.
La casa de los Hevia underwent a rehabilitation process that culminated in its inauguration as the "Villaviciosa House of Culture" on December 16, 2013. The important relationship of the future Emperor with this house can be seen simply on the façade where a plaque appears that It reads: "The emperor/ Charles I/ lived in this house/for four days when he/set foot on Spanish land for the first time in/Villaviciosa/ September 19 to 23, 1517."
On the occasion of the restoration of this building, it was decided to rehabilitate and make a museum of the specific room where Carlos de Gante stayed during that period of his trip. This room, where part of the party recreations take place, such as the audience, can be divided into different spaces that fulfill different functions.
It has an exhibition space where different information panels are housed in which the figure of Carlos de Gante is revealed, what Villaviciosa was like at the time of his arrival, what his stay at the Hevia house was like, and what is the memory of the stay, that is, the privileges granted not only to the Hevia family but also to the council. Likewise, facsimiles of documents related to the stay are also collected (letters in which different requests are made, always remembering the monarch's accommodation in the council). Likewise, an exhibition of period costumes and footwear used in recreations has been set up, designed by Azucena Rico and Alfonso Martínez, respectively, as well as a table and a chair that, despite not being the originals, seem to occupy the instead of those in which Carlos V was able to write letters informing of his arrival in Spain. Finally, it has what would be the room itself, within which a locution is reproduced in which the monarch "narrates" his journey and arrival in the Malian municipality.
Fernández García, Noelia. “El conjunto histórico artístico de Tazones: historia, conservación y patrimonialización de la villa donde desembarcó Carlos V”. En Payo Hernanz, René Jesús (et al.), Vestir la arquitectura: XXII Congreso Nacional de Historia del Arte de la Universidad de Burgos, vol. 2. (2019).