{"id":3054,"date":"2018-06-15T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/2018\/06\/15\/caravia-cows-in-asturias\/"},"modified":"2021-06-17T21:49:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T20:49:32","slug":"caravia-cows-in-asturias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/?p=3054","title":{"rendered":"Caravia Cows in Asturias"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caravia Alta, Playa de Arenal Moris
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Back up on the coast for a week, we parked up on a lovely hillside site in a village called Caravia Alta (Upper), we were given a spacious pitch all on our own! The real reason was to keep us off the grassy plots; motor homes and larger caravans were sinking into the soggy rain drenched grass and needed to be towed out! The beach was a good 200m walk downhill, the beach side bar opened at weekends and it was a really peaceful haven. Apart from the local cows in the surrounding fields, they had bells on!! The viaduct overhead was surprisingly quiet, you could hear the odd lorry, maybe it was drowned out by the continual mist that capped the mountains!
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The local cows are beautiful and several have little calves alongside, they produce the milk for the majority of Spain, plus 70% of Spain’s cheese!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Several small villages nearby kept us out for the odd day, and my love of ancient and different buildings caught my eye again as well as the different “horreos” buildings in this area – not only are they are a different shape compared to those down south but they are much bigger and mainly made of wood not stone. Several we saw had been modernised and converted into what looked like “granny or teenage annexes”!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Villaciciosa<\/span><\/h3>\n

We went into Villaviciosa one day, the small market town was interesting; it had one church and several palaces and monasterial buildings but all were closed to the public except the one very plain 13th century church; it did have a good tourist office where we were given lots of information about the Jurassic coastal areas and that was about it. Seems this is a “sidra” (cider to me and you!) making area, apple signs are everywhere, but we have yet to see an apple orchard. However, several beautiful buildings were in the square…
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We visited the Jurassic Museum, a modern building interestingly filled with dinosaurs (and I don’t mean David and I) and their relevant information…..well I’m sure it was interesting. It was all in Spanish. The replica monsters were well made and interesting.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lastres<\/span><\/h3>\n

We then went along the coast to a small fishing village called Lastres, climbed to the top of the hills above the village and looked down to the port and the rooftops. Amazing view. We found a small chapel at the top, very plain apart from a small table and an unusual array of prosthetic limbs on a shelf!! <\/span><\/p>\n

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Miradour de Fitu<\/span><\/h3>\n

We had lunch before coming back along the coast road to go up a mountain to a Miradour de Fitu. We climbed a 13% gradient through the mountains for about 5km, through clouds to a height of (approx) 590m above sea level and finally reached a platform, which on a good day would have given us a superb view of the coast below. As it was cloudy, we saw a valley below and loads of passing clouds as well as a herd of very inquisitive cows! <\/span><\/p>\n

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Ribadesella<\/span><\/h3>\n

Finally we visited a lovely fishing town called Ribadesella, a town split in two by a meandering river, The Sella; every year the first Saturday in August the bridge forms the finishing line in most Asturias’ most famous festivals – the canoe descent of the Sella River. The historic town of Ribadesella was founded by King Alfonso X the Wise in the 13th century, it is made up of a medieval town on one side and Modernist architecture on the other. <\/span><\/p>\n

The lovely promenade walk is home to several large Modernist style houses, all built to order by businessmen who made their money in the Americas around the early 1900s. Some are now hotels, some are still privately owned but all have a fabulous view of a wide sandy bay. This side is mainly made up of holiday properties, bars and restaurants and modern urbanisations. The other side of the river encompasses a small harbour of fishing and leisure boats and low rise blocks of residential flats lining the river side, with the small medieval town behind. A little further upstream are some caves and paintings claimed to be from 10,000 BC, as well as a museum containing the prehistoric findings in the area. <\/span><\/p>\n

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