The chapel of the Virgin of the Guide is a religious temple of Catholic worship under the Marian invocation of the Virgin of the Guide in the town of Llanes, in the autonomous community of Asturias, Spain. On October 15, 2016, the image of the Virgin of Guide was canonically crowned by the Archbishop of Oviedo, Don Jesús Sanz Montes, in a ceremony officiated in the Basilica of Santa María de Asunción de Llanes, made the fourth image of the Virgin canonically Crowned in the Principality of Asturias. Legend of foundation

According to popular legend, the party starts when a fishing boat that was fishing is surprised by a gale. The situation in the boat is becoming more difficult and the sailors are entrusted to the Virgin to give them protection. Once asked for protection they saw an object floating in the sea and decided to tie it to the boat, once this happened a pigeon appeared that took them to the mainland. On the mainland they opened the box, discovering the image of the Virgin.

The image was deposited in the chapel of San Antón but the image appeared in another place, the sailors returned to approach it to the chapel of San Antón, but disappears returning to the same place happening the same thing in three occasions, the same one place by which the dove had disappeared after taking to the sailors to earth. After this event, it is taken as will of the Virgin that her hermitage be erected in this place, known since then as field of the Guide. Building

The chapel dates from the 16th century. It was on September 2, 1515, when Fernando León Salas asked the founding of the chapel to the bishop of Oviedo, Diego de Muros.

The chapel was reformed on different occasions

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