- Title Navia
- Address Address: Jardines de Alfonso Iglesias, Avda. de la Dársena, 33710
- How to get here How to get here: Along the A-8 dual carriageway and the N-634 road.
- Phone Phone: 985 473 795
- Email Email: turismo@ayto-navia.es
- Site Site: www.naviaturismo.com
Puerto de Vega, in the council of Navia, embodies romanticism on the western Asturian coast, and for this reason it has been and continues to be a powerful source of inspiration for artists. Its surroundings are of spectacular natural and architectural beauty. The large Indian country houses with their gardens, the palace-houses, the typical Asturian mansions and a whole rural universe, colourful and authentic, are scattered around Puerto de Vega.
Its busy port is a charming sight, with its moored fleet of small wooden boats that go out to sea every day, and lined with typical fishermen's houses, ancestral homes, indianos' houses and modern buildings. Numerous symbols and monuments remind us of the greatness of its past and its role in important episodes, such as the fortification in 1776 and the death of the enlightened Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos in the Casona Trelles in 1811, after taking refuge in the town after a storm.
So the approach to this town is always a delight. The bars and restaurants exude the Cantabrian aromas of fish and seafood. The atmosphere is calm, and the fleet looks humble in the calm waters at the foot of the estuary.
Puerto de Vega treasures a rich and intense history, which is evident in every park, every monument, every plaque. Be sure to visit the "rula" and the "Stories of the Sea" Interpretation Centre (the gateway to the tourist region of the Navia Historical Park). If you want to soak up its farming customs, its fishing and canning industry and its migratory flows, visit the Juan Pérez Villamil Ethnographic Museum.
A stroll around the well-kept corners of Puerto de Vega will give you an idea of the skill of the Cantabrian fishermen in their work, of their heroic existence and of the plasticity of a port that is at once hidden and open to the sea. You will feel that this town is so special that it is no wonder it has been an Exemplary Town of Asturias since 1995.
- Old Town.
- Fishing port.
- Promenade of the Bastion.
- Viewpoint of La Riva.
- Maritime Club of Puerto de Vega
El Muelle, Puerto de Vega - Telephone: 635 315 445
- Number of moorings in anchorage: 14
- No transit moorings available
- Draught at the mouth: 3 m
- Basin draught: 1,5 m
- Mouth width: 50 m
- Parking
- Rubbish collection
- Crane 6 Tm (Owned by the guild)
- Offices
- Dry dock
- Pharmacy