San Miguel de Lillo stands on Mount Naranco near Santa María del Naranco in Oviedo. The article says it was completed in 842 and consecrated in 848 by Ramiro I of Asturias and his wife Paterna. The infobox lists Pre-Romanesque, but the article quotes a 16th-century historian calling parts of it Gothic in style. It names no architect.
It was a three-aisle basilica with barrel vaults and probably about five bays, but most of it collapsed in the 12th or 13th century, and only the Frankish-style royal westwork survives. The infobox gives a length of 39 feet (12 m) and a width of 33 feet (10 m).
The west facade has biforas and a quadrifora, and the transept has triforas with geometric tracery. Window plate tracery was carved from single stone slabs, and fragments of wall murals remain. UNESCO listed it in 1985.
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