Chapels of the Monsacro
- Morcín Asturias Centre
- Distance: 5,3 kms
- Difficulty: Short
- Altitude: 937 m.
- Unevenness: 519 m.
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On foot:
2 h. 30 min.
Round trip
- Start point: La Collá
- Tour type: Round trip
- Layout of the route: Download kml, Download gpx
Info
Landscape and more landscape is what the ascent to the chapels of Monsacro from Morcín offers us.
Leaving La Collá behind, we start to climb between enormous chestnut trees and immerse ourselves for a few hundred metres in this forest landscape that gradually changes to a slightly more open landscape of high scrubland and from here to scrubland.
The ascent is continuous and with each step the horizon opens up, the panorama widens and with it the soundscape, in which the rural and the urban mix. We see more and more: Oviedo, Siero, Gijón, the Sueve, the Picos de Europa..., further and further, and suddenly we stop climbing and go back several centuries in time.
The presence of the chapels takes us back to the time when the relics of the Holy Chamber were kept here; to a place where vultures, choughs and blackbirds are the only ones who dare to disturb the peace and quiet.
Route
La Collá/La Collada - La Collá/La Collada 5,5
This short route starts in the village of La Collá, in Morcín, and begins on a path that starts a few metres below the village. There is a signpost with instructions. After the first 300 metres, the route runs along a wide path, uphill, with hardly any ascent at first and shaded by a leafy and beautiful forest.
Half a kilometre further on, as the forest ends, the path narrows and becomes steeper and steeper, taking on a zigzag shape. When we reach kilometre 1.3 of the start of the path, we pass right next to the formation known as the Bishop's Chair, where legend has it that Bishop Toribio sat down to rest when he was carrying the Holy Relics.
Almost at the end of the route, at kilometre 2, after this laborious route, we enter a softer and wider path, which corresponds to the Vega Mayéu, where the chapels, the chapel of La Magdalena and the hermitage of Santiago are located. From here we return to La Collá, the end of our route.