Destinations

A 9th-century pre-Romanesque royal building on a hillside above Oviedo, originally built as a palace hall.

The apple valleys behind the Asturian coast, where cider is still pressed a village at a time.

Four mountain lakes in a green basin, an hour and a half on foot from the road.

A working knife-making town in the far west of Asturias, where the workshops still sell what they make.

The administrative village of Somiedo, where the cheese and the chorizo are sold.

A town on the ría del Eo looking across at Galicia, with indiano mansions and good seafood.

A summer settlement of thatched stone huts, still used, still standing, in the Somiedo high pastures.

High mountain valleys, working summer pastures and brown bears, an hour inland from the coast.

Western Asturias: watermills, knife workshops, slate hamlets and the greenest corner of the north.

The village to sleep in for Somiedo: stone houses, small hotels, and bears in the woods above.

One water channel running a mill, a forge, a fulling mill and a generator, still working.

Spain's most rugged limestone range rising from the Atlantic, offering world-class mountain scenery and hiking

A green and lively Asturian city famed for its distinct cider culture and regional heritage

A working harbor and summer town, with two beaches and good surf on the right swell.

A small Asturian fishing harbour where the houses stand almost in the water.

A small inland town that hosts the annual cider festival and the region's cider museum.

A cider town with an estuary, a weekly rhythm, and the biggest cidery in Spain on its doorstep.

The classic Picos de Europa day hike, tracing a limestone gorge along an old cliff path.

A Gothic cathedral in Oviedo built atop earlier pre-Romanesque structures, including the 9th-century Cámara Santa.

An Asturian fishing village where houses stack in an amphitheater around a tiny port.

A small inland beach in Asturias fed by an underground seawater channel, declared a Natural Monument.

A cliff-enclosed beach on the Asturian coast near Cudillero, reached via a steep staircase.

The cider museum in Nava explains the whole cycle: orchard, press, barrel, pour.