Pravia is a municipality in central Asturias with 7,792 inhabitants on 102.96 km². Its capital is the town of Pravia, once town and court of the Asturian monarchy under King Silo (774–783), which keeps the monumental splendour of those times: pre-Romanesque churches, palaces and manor houses in a fertile land watered by the Nalón, the…
Ponga is a municipality in eastern Asturias with 576 inhabitants on 205.98 km². Its capital is San Juan de Beleño, a village embedded in the Cantabrian mountains whose territory, declared a Natural Park and Biosphere Reserve, is a paradise for active tourism: hiking, canyoning and thermal waters among beech forests and gorges. Things to see…
Piloña is a municipality in eastern Asturias with 6,716 inhabitants on 283.89 km² and 24 parishes. Its capital is Infiesto (L’Infiestu), a hazelnut town on the banks of the river Piloña, between the Sierra del Sueve and the inland valleys. Things to see in Piloña Two kilometres from Infiesto, in Ques, the sanctuary of the…
Peñamellera Baja is a municipality in eastern Asturias (officially El Valle Baju de Peñamellera in Asturian) with 1,195 inhabitants on 83.85 km². Its capital is Panes, a town on the banks of the river Deva, at the foot of the Picos de Europa and right on the border with Cantabria. Things to see in Peñamellera…
Peñamellera Alta (in Asturian, El Valle Altu de Peñamellera) is one of the smallest and least populated municipalities in Asturias: 496 inhabitants on 92.19 km². Its capital is Alles. Set in the far east of the region, between the Sierra del Cuera and the Picos de Europa and bordering Cantabria, it is a land of…
Navia is a coastal municipality in western Asturias: 8,031 inhabitants on 63.12 km². Its capital is the town of Navia, set at the mouth of the river that gives it its name. A fishing port with a long tradition and a land of emigrants who returned from the Americas, it hosts the Descenso a Nado…
Parres is a municipality in eastern Asturias with 5,141 inhabitants on 126.08 km². Its capital is Arriondas (officially Arriondas/Les Arriondes), a town crossed by the river Sella which every August becomes the starting point of the municipality’s most international event: the Sella Descent, the only Festival of International Tourist Interest in Asturias. Things to see…
Oviedo is the capital of the Principality of Asturias and its most populous municipality: 223,968 inhabitants on 186.65 km². The city —Uviéu in Asturian— was founded in 761 by the monks Máximo and Fromestano, and it is the birthplace of the Camino de Santiago: in 834 King Alfonso II the Chaste set out from here…
Onís is one of the smallest municipalities in Asturias: 732 inhabitants on 75.42 km². Its capital is Benia de Onís (officially Benia). Nestled at the foot of the Cornión, the western massif of the Picos de Europa, it is known as the «heart of the Picos de Europa»; and its capital, Benia, is regarded as…
Noreña is the smallest municipality in Asturias: 5,131 inhabitants on just 5.29 km², the least extensive municipality in the region and one of the most densely populated, with one of the highest per-capita incomes. Its capital is the Villa Condal de Noreña (the “Count’s Town”), a territory fragmented into five enclaves nested within the municipality…