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View of the western massif of the Picos de Europa, with snow on the peaks and somewhat lower mountains in the foreground, different shades of green of the meadows, combined with the grey of the rock and the white of the snow. The blue sky gives great luminosity to the landscape.

Cangas de Onís

  • capital Capital: Cangues d' Onís/Cangas de Onís
  • Oriente de Asturias
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Regal and historic, mountainous and mountainous, commercial, riverside, land of shepherds and livestock, market, good cheeses and the best cuisine, witness to history, gateway to the Picos de Europa. This is Cangas de Onís

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Original photograph of the Puentón de Cangas, seen from the river upwards. Hanging the Victoria Cross. Creepers grow under the arch giving a touch of green to the beige stone. Through the arch in the background another bridge and to the right some houses. In the background a mountain. In the foreground on the right trees over the river.
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Combination of nature and architecture are shown in this photograph, in which the Basilica of Covadonga emerges from the deep green forest. Its two towers, with their steeples, point to the blue sky. In the foreground, framing the photo as if it were a frame, tree branches with darker green leaves fall.
View of the river Sella, more specifically, the so-called Rabión el Golondrosu, the unruly water crashing between the stones with capricious movements, give life to the photo. On the banks of the river the trees grow different greens depending on the sunlight, lighter and darker. In the background a mountain rises into the blue sky.

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The royal bearing of its capital, as befits what was the cradle of the Reconquest and the first city and court of the Asturian Monarchy, the first in the Iberian Peninsula. The mythical Roman Bridge with its hanging Victoria Cross and one of the most photographed monuments in Asturias is the symbol of the lively capital of Cangas de Onís, where there is no shortage of gastronomy, interesting gastronomic shops and a Sunday market where you can buy the tastiest produce from the market gardens and the best cheeses from Picos de Europa.

Cangas de Onís, one of the gateways to the Picos de Europa, saw the birth of the Montaña de Covadonga National Park, today the Picos de Europa National Park, and is home to the Royal Site of Covadonga and the Enol and Ercina lakes, with their landscape of peaks and pastures, and with the almost lunar appearance of the old iron mines of Buferrera or the spectacular view of the Vega de Comella, witness to the geological richness of this area. A land of passage to the plateau, of shepherding and livestock, of cheese, of mountaineers and climbers, of salmon fishermen, of riverside dwellers, of the worship of rivers such as the Sella, the Güeña or the Dobra. ..

Population: 6,787 inhabitants
Surface area: 212,8 km2
Weekly market: Sundays

Cangas de Onís
GPS: 43.350495, -5.131904