The south-west of Asturias hides one of the most fascinating mining stories of the Iberian peninsula: two thousand years ago, Rome extracted gold here in large quantities. Today, in Navelgas (Tineo), known as the «Valley of Gold», that past is still alive in the Museo del Oro de Asturias, the Ruta de la Huella del…
Asturias is territorially organized into 78 concejos, the traditional Asturian name for municipalities. This is the base map of this website: little by little we will publish a special dedicated to each of them, and this article will be the index from which to link them all. To organize the tour we divide the Principality…
Aller is a municipality in central Asturias, in the Caudal comarca. Its capital has been Cabañaquinta since 1869. With just over 10,000 inhabitants, it combines high mountain landscapes —with the San Isidro pass— and an important mining past. The municipality of Aller highlighted in blue (central Asturias) on the map of Asturias What to see…
Allande is a municipality in western Asturias, part of the Narcea comarca. Its capital is Pola de Allande (La Puela). It is one of the largest municipalities in the region —339.37 km²— and one of the least populated, with about 1,500 inhabitants. The municipality of Allande highlighted in green (western Asturias) on the map of…
Some sweets you eat and some sweets you remember. Moscovitas belong to the second kind: fine almond pastries coated in chocolate that have been sweetening Oviedo for almost a century and have become its most famous gastronomic souvenir. Their name is a registered trademark and their recipe a family secret now in its fourth generation….