Has anyone traveled to the Asturias region? Any thoughts on spending a week exploring this region. Things to see and places to stay. We will be coming from Florence.
Thank you
Rich
Has anyone traveled to the Asturias region? Any thoughts on spending a week exploring this region. Things to see and places to stay. We will be coming from Florence.
Thank you
Rich
Yes! It’s fun and interesting. We stayed near Llanes on a farm. This put us at the eastern end of Asturias so we split sightseeing between Asturias and Cantabria during our 5 night June 2024 stay.
Asturias is pretty small, so consider visiting places in Galicia, Cantabria, and northern Castilla y La Mancha too. In that area we’ve stayed in Ribadeo, León, and years ago, Oviedo.
Places we’ve visited are cathedral beach, Astorga, Valencia de Don Juan, Ponferrada, Cangas de Onis, and Covadonga in Picos de Europa National Park. We drove from Ribadeo over to Santillana Del Mar. Although it’s in Galicia we enjoyed Lugo with its Roman wall surrounding the town.
Places I have bookmarked to visit next time I’m in that area include the 9th century churches, Iglesia de Santa María del Naranco, Church of San Miguel de Lillo, and Iglesia de San Julián de los Prados - Santullano,
We are fans of Spain’s Parador hotels. Ones in that area include Ribadeo, Corias, Gijón, Cangas de Onis, and Fuente Dé.
Three villages in Asturias on Spain’s Prettiest Villages list are Bulnes, Llastres, Tazones, and Torazu.
The Spain.info site also lists some towns and cities to visit. The Asturias Tourism website might also be helpful.
Matt
If you were happy with the stay on the farm, could you share the name of the place?
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Jaime
Like Matt, if the places you stayed at were enjoyable would consider sharing with me,
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R
In León and Ribadeo we stayed at the Paradors. The Parador in León at Plaza San Marcos was outstanding and underwent renovations shortly after we were there. The Parador in Ribadeo afforded great views, but was in need of some renovation. The town is pretty small with no wow sites and one night there is sufficient. There is a Templar built church. We stayed at both Paradors in 2017. In 2019 we stayed at Hotel Monumento Pazo de Orbán e Sangro in Lugo. It was charming and right next to the wall. At the time, all three had free parking.
It was fun. The owners were great. My kids enjoyed the farm atmosphere.
Asturias is "small??" We had more than two weeks with a car and barely delved into lnto all we wanted to see.
Have you read about the Cuenca's mineras?
Picos de Europa?
All of the glorious port towns?
Oviedo?
Not saying there isn’t a lot to see in Asturias, but when compared to other regions, it is small by area. Not the smallest, but smaller than Galicia, Castilla y León, Castilla y La Mancha, Andalucía, etc. I guess it comes down to what one considers small.