Casas caídas y maltratadas. Las arquitecturas efímeras del Oviedo medieval

Abstract

Many of the private dwellings and urban buildings in the city of Oviedo at the end of the Middle Ages, in the hands of the cathedral chapter, were in a very defective situation, not to say ruinous, as was the case with some public buildings, abandoned to their fate despite being symbols of the royal city, such as the Cimadevilla Tower. In this study we aim to show the most significant aspects of Oviedo’s buildings to understand how the public authorities and urban elites tackled the construction problem and tried to solve the structural decay of their urban buildings.