San Martín de Oscos

Time passes slowly, as if stopped, in an ideal environment for total relaxation, for the contemplative life that unfolds contemplating the size and the impressive noble coat of arms of the Palace of Mon, or making the route around this place, or enjoying the arrival at the capital of the municipality, Samartín, which delights the outsider with its hospitality, with its gastronomy, or with the visit to the parish church or the house of the Guzmanes...

If in Asturias one had to look for or imagine the guardians of time, of memory, of customs and village life, one of the most powerful would undoubtedly be in Los Oscos, a region that seems designed for ethnographic science and that can fulfil the expectations of travellers and researchers who want to travel into the past... A perfect metaphor for this time in detention is the Casa del Marco, in Villarquille, a sample of the life of the peasants of the most remote and authentic west until well into the 20th century.

With its rivers and streams, its springs, its sweet valleys, the colour of its forests in autumn, and its accessible mountains, the Oscos and San Martín de Oscos in particular is a more than ideal place for hiking.

Population: 466 inhabitants.
Surface area: 66.56 ^km2