ROUTE ALONG THE VEGA DE ORANDI
Jul 22, 2011 Activities, Asturias, Cangas Onis, Sports, Spain, Mountain, Nature, Leisure, Landscapes, Routes, Hiking, TN, Tourism, Tourism, Asturias Tourism, Natural Tourism, Rural Tourism
Many people choose to visit Asturias, particularly for rural and activity based tourism especially because both can be combined to offer a great variety of possibilities, such as the route I shall show you here. It’s a short route, of low difficulty, apt for everyone, and where you’ll enjoy both hill-walking, nature and a wonderful day out on the border of civilisation. I’ll talk about the route that runs through the Vega de Orandi until Covadonga and I’ll show you a video with some corners which you can enjoy on your walk.
The entire route runs through the National Park of the Picos de Europa, where you’ll find rocky paths, forests and meadows.
We begin our adventure in Moferos, 4km from Covagadonga on the road that will take us to the Lakes of Covadonga. Leer más »
Tags: Asturias, Woods, Indigenous Forests, Covadonga, Lakes of Covadonga, Mountain, Mount, Nature, East Asturias, Landscape, National Park, Picos Europa, Route, Routes, Sanctuary Covadonga, Hiking, TN, Tourism, Active Tourism, Asturias Tourism, Natural Tourism, East Asturias Tourism, Rural Tourism, Vega Orandi
Mountain Bike Route: Infiesto – Covadonga
Mar 8, 2011 Activities, Asturias, BTT, Cangas Onis, Sports, Nature, Leisure, Landscapes, Parres, Piloña, Villages, Routes, Hiking, Tourism, Tourism, Asturias Tourism, Natural Tourism, Rural Tourism
Ruta en bicicleta de montaña desde Infiesto hasta Covadonga por el Camino de la Reina.
It is undoubtedly a very pretty and entertaining route, perhaps a little long… but it is worth the effort.
It runs along the Camino de la Reina, (the Queen’s Way), which by-the-way, is properly indicated and is of a medium-low difficulty which means it is apt for everybody (if you want to walk it, I recommend you split it up into two days, as it’s approximately 40 Km).
At 9.45am on the 13th of February 2011, I met up with some friends at the FEVE train station at Arriondas, with the idea of taking the train to Infiesto (capital of the municipality of Piloña), where we would begin our excursion.
We went aboard, taking up almost an entire waggon. In Sevares, another group of cyclists got on who were heading for the same place. Once in Infiesto, we saw that we were quite a good number of sportsmen and there were still more to arrive.
At 10am, now a group of approximately 50 people, we got on our bikes and set off towards Covadonga; it’s cold and it looks like rain, but we are very keen to do the route.
After passing Cardes, Valle (charming little villages), La Revoria, Lledó and El Perón, we arrived at Villamayor, the first point where we regrouped and took a break.
Tags: Arriondas, Asturias, Mountain bike, BTT, Queen’s Way, Cangas de Onis, Cangas Onis, Covadonga, Infiesto, Infiestu, Mountain, Mount, Nature, East Asturias, Landscape, Parres, Piloña, Villages, Route, Mountain bike route, BTT Route, Routes, Sanctuary Covadonga, Hiking, Tourism, Active Tourism, Arriondas Tourism, Asturias Tourism, Cangas Onis Tourism, Natural Tourism, East Asturias Tourism, Parres Tourism, Piloña Tourism, Rural Tourism
Routes: San Silvestre Cicloturista Arriondas – Covadonga – Arriondas
Dec 28, 2010 Activities, Asturias, Sports, Leisure, Routes, Traditions, Tourism, Tourism, Asturias Tourism, Natural Tourism
There are famous races in Spain called the San Silvestre races and can be found almost everywhere. These races take place every 31 December with a large number of people attending or taking part in them.
But it’s not all about running and competing. Tandem Sport has been organising the San Silvestre Arriondas – Sanctuary of Covadonga – Arriondas race every year since 1993, with the idea of seeing the new year in, in a different way: by bicycle.
This San Silvestre is different, not only because it’s a race by bicycle, but also because it isn’t a competition. It’s simply a lovely outing which anyone can join in.
Tags: Arriondas, Asturias, Covadonga, East Asturias, Route, Routes, San Silvestre, San Silvestre bicycle route, Sanctuary Covadonga, Tourism, Active Tourism, Arriondas Tourism, Asturias Tourism, Natural Tourism
NATURE: LAKES OF COVADONGA.
Apr 20, 2010 Asturias, Mountain, Nature, Landscapes, Tourism, Tourism, Asturias Tourism, Natural Tourism, Rural Tourism
The region of Asturias offers many tourist attractions, one of the most important being the Picos de Europa National Park. Within this national park there is a good access road that leads to the Enol LakeErcina Lake and , more popularly known as the Lakes of Covadonga.
Many of you will have visited the Lakes of Covadonga, but I am sure that some of you will not know all the amazing secrets that this landscape offers – the many routes that begin in the Lakes of Covadonga… A clear example of this are the mines of Buferrera; I didn’t discover them until I was taken along a route that passed the mine and which left me quite surprised! Leer más »
Tags: Asturias, Covadonga, Lakes of Covadonga, Mine Buferrera, Mountain, Mount, Nature, East Asturias, Landscape, National Park, Picos Europa, Tourism, Active Tourism, Asturias Tourism, Natural Tourism, East Asturias Tourism, Rural Tourism
NATURE: THE MINE OF BUFERRERA.
Apr 14, 2010 Activities, Asturias, History, Mountain, Nature, Leisure, Landscapes, Hiking, Tourism, Tourism, Asturias Tourism, Natural Tourism, Rural Tourism
Today I shall tell you about a mine that lays in the midst of the National Park of the Picos de Europa, found near the Lakes of Covadonga: The Mine of Buferrera.
The mine of Buferrera dates from 1868 and it was used for the extraction of minerals such as iron and manganese. The road that today leads to the Lakes of Covadonga did not exist in those days and miners had to carry the minerals down the mountainside on their shoulders or on beasts of burden, covering some 12km in distance and a drop of 800m between this mine and Covadonga.
Tags: Asturias, Covadonga, History, Asturian History, Lakes of Covadonga, Mountain, Mount, Nature, East Asturias, Landscape, National Park, Picos Europa, Route, Routes, Hiking, Tourism, Active Tourism, Asturias Tourism, History Tourism, Natural Tourism, East Asturias Tourism, Rural Tourism