Today's Principality of Asturias is one of Spain's 17 autonomous communities, and since December 1990 its official flag bears the Victory Cross on blue background, offset towards the hoist.

Alfonso III donated this important Pre-Romanesque gold artifact to Cathedral of Oviedo to commemorate a hundred years of the Asturian kingdom's victories and conquests.

[3] During the 1936–39 Spanish Civil War the Cross, like the rest of the artifacts in the Cámara Sancta, suffered serious damages which required its restoration.

However, the work of goldsmiths Horacio Rivero Alvarez and Luis Aguilar did not consider the original design, altering the position of the medallion on both fronts.

The reverse shows an inscription in soldered gold letters, mentioning the donors to the Church of San Salvador, King Alfonso II and Queen Jimena of Pamplona, and the place (Gauzón Castle) and the year it was made:[3] Svsceptvm Placide Maneat Hoc In Honore Di Qvod OffervntFamvli Xpi Adefonsvs Princes Et Scemena Regina Qvisqvis Avferre Hoc Donaria Nostra Presvmserit Fvlmine Divino Intereat Ipse Hoc Opvs Perfectvm Et Concessvm Est Santo Salvatori Ovetense Sedis Hoc Signo Tvetvr Pivs Hos Signo Vincitvr Inimicvs Et Operatvm Es In Castello Gavzon Anno Regni Nsi XLII Discvrrente Era DCCCLXVI A