Connection of the Original Way and the Coastal or North Way

The Camino de Santiago has always been much more than a pilgrimage journey. It was a meeting point, a place to connect with people, share experiences and open up to spirituality. It marked the Middle Ages, giving Europe an identity of its own, and paved the way for the Renaissance and its new ideas.

Precisely in the management of this context, Asturias is a pioneer, and is the cradle of that spirit of connectivity and freedom that the Way of St. James signifies.

At that time, there was an intense and fluid relationship between those two cities, Oviedo/Uviéu and Avilés, and this fact contributed decisively to the creation of a pilgrimage route that has survived until the 21st century, and which runs through the councils of Oviedo, Llanera, Corvera de Asturias and Avilés, along a route of almost 30 kilometres.

The very departure from Oviedo/Uviéu towards Llanera already gives a glimpse of a Jacobean stage that will immerse you in the atmosphere and the best-kept rural secrets of the centre of Asturias.

It was precisely in this council that the Roman Empire established the link between its routes in Asturias, the Lucus Asturum. And centuries later, from the Middle Ages onwards, noble places were created, of which today we have historical and architectural testimony in the form of mansions and palaces such as San Cucao or Campomanes in Cayés.

Alongside the palatial grandeur, and in harmonious combination, the genuine atmosphere of the Asturian villages, with their hórreos and paneras, and with their green meadows, watered by streams and small rivers?

And so, step by step, after climbing the Alto de la Miranda, and walking through the council of Corvera de Asturias, the route enters Avilés through Los Campos. Once in the Villa del Adelantado, a stroll through its impressive historic quarter, where every corner hides a treasure and dozens of anecdotes, is a must.