Ruta de cicloturismo. De Nueva a Cangas de Onís

This route links the main coastal route with the inland route between the towns of Nueva, in Llanes, and Cangues d'Onís/Cangas de Onís. It is a short route that uses local roads with little traffic and offers two mountain passes along the way, Alto del Torno and Collado de Igena, which cross the mountain ranges that run parallel to the sea and are characteristic of this area.

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Address Nueva, Cangues d'Onís/Cangas de Onís

Distance Distance: 29 kms
Difficulty Difficulty: Easy
Total ascent Total ascent: 835 m
Maximum altitude Maximum altitude: 535 m
Minimum altitude Minimum altitude: 47 m
IBP index IBP index: 50

Route One-day routes,Links
Route type Route type: Road
Type of route Type of route: Linear
Return by Train Return by Train: No

Starting point Starting point: New
Ending point Ending point: Cangues d'Onís/Cangas de Onís
Estimated duration Estimated duration: Half day

We start from Nueva taking the AS-340 road, which we will not leave until practically the end of the route, and quickly begin to climb the first ramps as we change the orientation of the route in an east-west direction, to enter the valley between the Sierra del Mazuco and the Sierra Cueva Negra. We continue to Llamigu where the road becomes more winding and the gradient increases to reach the Alto del Torno pass.

We then descend to Rinsena and tackle the climb to the Collado de Igena, which is gentler and shorter than the previous one, to continue along the valley and then negotiate small hills that, in a very marked north-east-south-west direction, take us towards Corao.

Once in Corao we join the AS-114 road and, after a short distance of 1.2 km, we leave it at Sotu Cangues to cross the river Güeña and take the road to Cuadonga/Covadonga that will take us to Cangues d'Onís/Cangas de Onís.

Cangues d'Onís/Cangas de Onís, as well as having a formidable atmosphere, offers a very interesting visit in which you cannot miss the Roman Bridge, in reality a medieval bridge but with an undeniable charm or the chapel of the Santa Cruz, built on an ancient dolmen and which housed the Cross of Victory.

Respect the direction of traffic on urban stretches.