Grandas de Salime

Grandas de Salime carries in its 'genetic map' the Camino de Santiago, not in vain one of its most notable signs of identity is the fact of being the last Asturian stage of the Primitive Way, before the pilgrim enters Galician lands. Perhaps because of this simultaneous 'nomadic' and sedentary imprint, Grandas treasures like few other territories its most ancestral origins, which restless travellers can investigate in the Chao Samartín or in its famous Ethnographic Museum - an ordered compendium of all the culture and traditional uses of the western region and of the whole of Asturias. The Ethnographic Museum, due to its impressive inventory of pieces - in constant growth -, is a very rich sample of the past, staged in a lively and very realistic way, where we find a blacksmith's shop, a rural school, the dentist, the infirmary, the tailor's house, the classic shop-bar, etc., in short, a set of well-cohesioned and valued elements that make this facility a reference in Spain.

Grandas de Salime has, in addition to its Jacobean and military culture, a panoramic and grandiose reservoir containing the river Navia, which is another of its most emblematic features, including a village. Churches and mansions, the Collegiate Church of San Salvador which marks the Pilgrim's Way, natural and archaeological routes, hunting and fishing, the Sierras de Carondio and Valledor, the ancient gold mines that the Romans plundered... and so many illusions of thousands of pilgrims. Grandas de Salime is a catalyst of dreams and paths.

Population: 830 inhabitants.
Surface area: 29,45 ^km2
Weekly market: Second Sunday of every month.