La gran aventura del Reino de Asturias

The birth of the kingdom of Asturias under Muslim Spain was a titanic undertaking of resistance and survival. One of the most fascinating adventures not only in the History of Spain, but in universal history. Although it is inconceivable that a handful of Christian rebels managed to form an independent kingdom in the north of the Peninsula against the greatest power of their time and, later, extend it towards the south in a tenacious work of repopulation, that is what happened around Covadonga, between Asturias and Cantabria, from the year 722. How was such a feat possible? Who were its authors? What were the names of the heroic pioneers who began to gain land to the south, thanks to their hoes more than their swords? José Javier Esparza immerses us in that extraordinary time, where the survival of a civilization was at stake every day. Year after year, step by step, the story of the origins of the kingdom of Asturias reveals names and figures now forgotten: from the pioneers Lebato and Muniadona to Beato de Liébana, passing through the warrior counts and the settler monks. Two hundred years of history that culminate in the arrival to the Duero and in the metamorphosis of the crown of Oviedo into the kingdom of León. But how did it all start?