San Tirso de Abres (San Tiso d’Abres in Eonavian) is a municipality in western Asturias, in the middle valley of the river Eo and right on the border with Galicia. Its capital is El Llano. With 396 inhabitants and 31.41 km², it is one of the smallest municipalities in the Principality: a single parish (San…
San Martín de Oscos is a municipality in the far west of Asturias, in the Los Oscos comarca (Eo-Navia), where time seems to have stood still. Its capital is San Martín de Oscos (Samartín in Eonavian). With 337 inhabitants and 66.56 km², it is one of the least populated municipalities in the region: a land…
Salas is a municipality in west-central Asturias, known as «the Gateway to the West» of Asturias. Its capital is the town of Salas. With 4,771 inhabitants, 227.10 km² and 28 parishes, it is a land of river valleys —Narcea, Nonaya and Esva— where the Primitive Way of Saint James has left a deep mark. What…
Riosa is a municipality in the central Asturian mountains, in the Oviedo comarca, known worldwide as the land of L’Angliru, one of the most feared climbs in international cycling. Its capital is La Vega. With 1,712 inhabitants and 46.49 km², it is a municipality of very rugged terrain, straddling the Sierra del Aramo and the…
Ribadedeva is the municipality at the eastern tip of Asturias: 1,693 inhabitants on 35.66 km² between the Cantabrian Sea and the river Deva, which separates it from Cantabria. Its capital, Colombres, preserves the largest and best-preserved ensemble of indiano architecture in all of Asturias, and its cliffs hold one of the jewels of European Palaeolithic…
Pesoz is a municipality in western Asturias with 134 inhabitants on 38.97 km². It is a single-parish municipality —the parish being Pesoz itself (Pezós in Eonavian)— set between the Agüeira and Navia rivers, in the wine lands of western Asturias. Things to see in Pesoz The jewel of its civil heritage is the Palacio de…
Ribera de Arriba is a small municipality in central Asturias —1,852 inhabitants on 21.98 km²— whose name says it all: it is the bank of the river Nalón, where the river Caudal delivers its waters to the great Asturian river. Its capital, Soto de Ribera, is only 7 km from Oviedo, and the Camino del…
Ribadesella is the great seafaring town at the mouth of the river Sella: 5,591 inhabitants on 84.37 km² of coast, estuary and mountains. Founded by Alfonso X the Wise in the 13th century, it guards the Tito Bustillo cave, one of the summits of world Palaeolithic art, and every August it hosts the finish of…
Quirós is a municipality in central Asturias with 1,142 inhabitants on 208.79 km². Its capital is Bárzana, in the centre of a very mountainous valley —40% of the territory rises above 1,200 metres— that forms an essential part of the Las Ubiñas-La Mesa Natural Park: a historic frontier and crossing point towards the Meseta, a…
Proaza is a municipality in central Asturias with 686 inhabitants on 76.79 km². Its capital is the town of Proaza, in the heart of the Valles del Oso (Bear Valleys): a land of gentle meadows and steep slopes, crossed by the Trubia river, where the Middle Ages left towers and entire villages and the 21st…