Catedral de Oviedo

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

Hand-made folding knives from the workshops of Taramundi: the best thing to buy in western Asturias.

A warming Asturian specialty of white beans and pork, best enjoyed with a glass of natural cider

A bold, pungent Asturian blue cheese aged in mountain caves until it develops a fierce and salty character

A gargantuan Asturian veal fillet sandwich filled with intense Cabrales cheese and jamón, then breaded and fried

A luscious Asturian rice pudding slowly simmered with lemon and cinnamon, finished with a crisp burnt-sugar top

Asturian natural cider: flat, sour, poured from a height, and drunk in small amounts.

The Villaviciosa cidery that turned an Asturian farmhouse drink into a national brand.

A working Nava lagar, the kind where cider is pressed, sold and poured from the same building.

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

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

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

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

Nava's cider festival, held each July, is the region's annual argument and celebration.

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

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.