Already in Prehistoria, in the age of Stone, dispersed slumses by geography are known Asturias, as they demonstrate the deposits found in the caves of Tito Bustillo (Ribadesella), the Pindal (Ribadedeva), the Buxu (Cangas de Onís), San Roman de Candamo (Candamo), Covaciella (Cabrales), recently discovered is not still open to the public, in addition to other many of smaller importance. Other Prehistoric rest like dólmenes, túmulos and the Idolo de Peña You (Llanes) are through recondite Asturian geography.

In the Age of the Iron, Astures and Cantabros bequeath, after long resistance to the Romans in the Cantabrian Wars (29 a.C. to the 19 a.C.), at the time of Emperor Augusto, their culture celta in the Castros, fortified towns, between which they emphasize by his conservation those of Coaña (Coaña), San Chuis (Allande) and the one of Pendia (Boal).

Romanización in Asturias, in addition to interesting manifestations artistic and rest of buildings like Spas of Field Valdés (Gijón), leaves infrastructure road that communicated to us with the rest of the Peninsula, of which they conserve the Roman Road of Mesa or Real Camín, that communicated Torrestío in Leon with Gijón, and sinfín of mining operations in the West, of which emphasize the operations, auriferous.
Don Pelayo, after the victory against the Muslims in the battle of Covadonga, Cradle of Reconquista, initiates the period of the Asturian Monarchy. Ancestry of Kings who fight by the freedom and independence, offering a time of splendor and bequeathing an architectonic art to us, rustic and sober: the Asturian Romanesque Art, declared by UNESCO Patrimony of the Humanity in 1985.

The PreRomanesque one is developed through three times that agree with the reign of three different Kings, although already it announces in the Church of Santianes de Pravia (century VIII, 774-783). Epoca de Alfonso II (century IX, 791-842): Camera Santa, San Tirso, San Julian of the Meadows, Santa Maria de Bendones and San Pedro de Nora (Oviedo). Epoca Ramirense. Ramiro I (century IX, 842-850): Santa Maria of the Naranco, San Miguel de Lillo (Oviedo) and Santa Cristina de Lena (Lena). Epoca de Alfonso III (centuries IX-X, 866-910): San Salvador de Valdediós and San Salvador de Priesca (Villaviciosa), San Salvador de Gobiendes (Colunga), Santo Adriano de Tuñón (Santo Adriano) and the Source of Foncalada, unique of civil character that is conserved in Oviedo. Transferred the Court in century X to Leon, Asturias undergoes a long period of isolation, bran partly by the Way of Santiago, that breaks the in of the Romanesque one with the construction of multiple churches, monasteries and hospitals for the attention of the travelling one.

The Gothic one also leaves to its track, being the Cathedral of Oviedo its more representative monument. Constructed between centuries XV and XVI, it keeps in his interior, in addition to the Greater Altarpiece, the Relics de la Cruz of Los Angeles, the Cross of the Victory, the Coffer of the Agatas, etc. During centuries XVI to the XVIII, Asturias remains locked up in itself and with little capacity of progress, until the illustration, where Jovellanos, Feijoo and Campomanes give an impulse to the culture, economy and policy. The Asturian ones enriched in the emigration populate the Principality with singulars palacetes and modernist mansions, denominated Houses of Indian. In the middle of century XIX, with operation of coal and of iron, begins way towards development industrial, which with the appearance of the railroad it causes the arrival of workers of all Spain which they influence of considerable form in the union policy, like the Revolutionary Movement of 1934. After the Civil War, and already in recent history Asturias it is constituted in Independent Region with the name of Principality of Asturias.

Asturias maintained in the past, as a result of its geographic isolation, an important artisan production, disappeared with the arrival of the new ways of production. However, still it counts on an ample product range craftsmen: wood cutlery, ferrería, pottery, instruments, manufacture of madreñas, basketwork, modelismo, azabachería, embroidered of mesh, carpets, carpets, stature of wood, regional customes, crafts of the leather.