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You can see the cape going into the sea with important cliffs, at the top the lighthouse, white, on a green meadow, in the background you can see the village of candas with beaches on the right and the port on the left of the image. the sea is blue and calm.

Carreño

  • capital Capital: Candás
  • Cape Peñas
A capital that is Villa de Olímpicos, canning and seafaring tradition, the devotion to Christ, the Clarinian inspiration, painting, sculpture, colourful bread bakeries, beaches and viewpoints, sardines, good cuisine... a whole universe called Carreño.

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View of Candás at sunset. In the foreground a small beach, the water is calm with stones emerging, the tide is low. In the background you can see the port and the town with its buildings and behind it a hill with cliffs falling into the sea on the right. Above, some trees grow towards the sky, touching pink clouds.
Photograph of the Candás lighthouse, accompanied by a palm tree, at the top of the cliff whose green slope falls into the sea. In the background, the coastline where part of the port can be seen. In the background, the Picos de Europa emerge spectacularly with their light grey rock blending into the sky. In the blue sea, a white sailboat stands out close to the coast.
Image of Candás from the sea. The calm water with its colourful boats moored in the harbour. The harbour promenade with its white railing. Behind the village with a tall building that stands out among the other half-height buildings that go up the sloping streets. Between the houses is the white church with two grey bell towers.
Image of the Sardine Festival. A cook dressed in white with a grey scarf and red cap grills a pile of sardines. More grilled sardine stalls and many people in white with grey scarf serving in the centre. All around at the bar people eating and drinking.

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The lyrics of the song 'Mirando al mar soñé' (Looking out to sea I dreamt) seem to be inspired by Carreño, which constantly looks and breathes the sea. A land of sailors with an oceanic vocation, which inspired Clarín himself for his life's work 'La Regenta', it relives its past and present in gestures and places, in festivals and celebrations. Lovers of good food should not miss the sardine festival or its Michelin-starred cuisine, and those who want to join in the traditions should take part in its Holy Week or in the festivities of Christ, one of the devotions with the most pilgrims in the whole of Asturias.

But Carreño is much more than that, it is as rural as any other town in Asturias, with its colourful and colourful bread bakeries, its medieval towers such as Prendes, its many beaches and viewpoints, its canning tradition, as can be seen in the Canning Museum in the capital of the council, Candás, where the artistic vocation is also evident in its open-air museum of marine painting and in the Antón Museum of sculpture. And as if that were not enough, Candás is an Olympic Village, and sports such as canoeing are a religion that has elevated Asturian and Spanish sport to the highest level in the history of sport.

Population: 10,967 inhabitants.
Area: 66,7 km2
Weekly market: Saturdays

Carreño
GPS: 43.5912816,-5.7657528