Situation

The "Caseria" (country house) is, in Asturias, an unit of family rural exploitation that is the equivalent to the "Caserio" (house village) of the Basque country, the Catalan "Masia" (farmhouse) or the Andalusian "Cortijo" (farm). The Country house St. John of the Bishop is an agricultural property of 20 Hectares of extension around the house of its proprietors, the García-Meana Menéndez-Fernández family.

It belongs to the territorial space and parish of Tiñana, located at 10 Kilometers of Oviedo, administrative capital of the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias. Tiñana (from latin Tenni-ana village or from village of Tinius) seats its origins in the Roman time. Its ownership has been dated to D. Pelayo (initiator of the reconquest war against the Muslims) in a document of May the 6th, 899.

St John of the Bishop is a populational nucleus belonging to Tiñana. In the year 1365 its existence is verified, in documents, as a parish under Saint John the Baptist invocation, and patronage of the Bishop from Oviedo. In this rural space the existence of "Lagares de Sidra" (cider presses) is credited from the XVI century, as annexed agricultural stays of palaces or large houses, of noblemen and gentleborn of the area.

The cider tradition of this district lasts until the present. At the present time numerous presses exist in full production. This territory configures, in present time, a landscape of Asturian countryside (hills of intense and varied green, populated of forest and grassland). It is travels from Esat to West by the River Nora and it is furrowed by several of its flowing streams. It is an authentic northern ornithological paradise. Very rich in big fauna (boar, roe deer, fox, etc.) and arboreal flora (chestnut trees, oaks, birches, etc.)