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Photograph of the Alfilorios reservoir, its waters reflecting the snow-capped mountain in the background like a mirror. In the foreground a tree on the left bank of the reservoir. Other lower mountains on both sides of the image, green and bluish in colour, are also reflected in the water. Blue sky with some white clouds.

Morcín

  • capital Capital: Santolaya
  • Central Mountain
The Relics and the history of the Monsacro, unique places for hiking or cycling, the Afuega'l Pitu cheese and the open and hospitable people, or the beauty of the Los Alfilorios reservoir. This is Morcín

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Los Alfilorios reservoir in springtime
Aerial view of the Monsacro
Medieval Tower in Peñerúes, Morcín
Chapel of La Magdalena. Monsacro

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Morcín keeps its secrets very well...as is demonstrated by its convulsive and fascinating history. In its powerful and beautiful Monastery have rested the Christian relics, very well guarded by its inhabitants, who today continue to be an Exemplary Town, as evidenced by the award of Exemplary Town to La Foz, by the Princess of Asturias Foundation. Its natural beauty and its history, always under the influence of the almighty Sierra del Aramo, make Morcín an ideal place for hiking, cycle tourism, industrial, cultural or gastronomic tourism...

The chapels of the Monsacro are charming and charming, the Medieval Tower in Peñerúes and its location are imposing, theAfuelga'l Pitu Cheese Festival is impressive and very tasty, a unique gastronomic event that puts Morcín on the European cheese map with such an exquisite creation, and the natural environment of the Los Alfilorios Reservoir is no less interesting. There is everything in Morcín and especially the people of Morcín, very open and hospitable people, ready at any time to attend to the demands of outsiders... and to be guardians of the most ancestral traditions.

Population: 2,866 inhabitants.
Surface area: 50,05 km2
Weekly market: Thursday

Morcín
GPS: 43.2804622,-5.8799146
  • The Exemplary Village of La Foz and its Afuega'l Pitu festival.
  • The chapels of the Monsacro: Santiago and La Magdalena.
  • The Sierra del Aramo mountain range.
  • The Medieval Tower in Peñerúes and the reservoir of Los Alfilorios.