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Image of Luarca. In front, the port with its red, green, blue and white boats, a splendid colour above the sea. In the background the village, forming a semicircle and climbing up the hillside. Most of the houses are white, some are blue, mustard or brown, with slate roofs. Above the cemetery looking out to sea and an area of trees touching the blue sky.

Valdés

  • capital Capital: Luarca/Ḷḷuarca
  • Vaqueira Region
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Sea, river and mountains make up the council of Valdés. Its capital, Ḷḷuarca, known as the "Villa Blanca de la Costa Verde", treasures natural beauties, legends such as the Kiss Bridge, modernist and indian architecture, and is the land of wise men such as Severo Ochoa, who have marked a milestone in the history of human knowledge. Beautiful, wise, enigmatic and enormous, that is Valdés.

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View of Quintana beach, in Valdés, surrounded by cliffs. A fine stone beach, with a turquoise sea. There is a mixture of colours above the cliffs, the light greens of the meadows, the dark greens of the forests, the reds of the earth and other plants. In the background is a range of bluish mountains. In the foreground are brown, autumnal ferns.
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View of Barayo beach, Partial Nature Reserve. In the foreground, dunes full of vegetation with botanical species of great interest. In front, the beach without vegetation with the high tide and the deep blue sea. To the left, closing the large sandy area, a hill rises up with vegetation and trees that blend in with the sky.
Cliff landscape, turquoise sea in the foreground, a small beach with no access to the right, boulders, rocky area all around. At the top of the cliff, areas of green meadows alternate with dark green wooded areas and areas of scrubland in shades of brown.

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The historical trajectory of the council of Valdés, the fourth largest in Asturias in terms of area, is deeply linked to life and its evolution. It is no coincidence that the Parque de la Vida (Park of Life) is located in this territory, where you can see cephalopods of extraordinary dimensions, unique in the world and which appear in this area of the Cantabrian Sea, or that the only Spanish Nobel Prize winner for Medicine, Severo Ochoa, whose synthesis of cellular DNA in the laboratory has been the key to the development of contemporary biomedicine, was born here.

A good and quality life is enjoyed by locals and foreigners alike when they enjoy the many natural beauties of the municipality: the countless coves and beaches, the Protected Landscape of the Esva River Gorges, the Nature Reserve of Barayo Beach, the viewpoint of La Regalina in Cadavéu, the impressive cliffs and panoramic views of Cape Busto, the Valley of Paredes, Princess of Asturias Award for Exemplary Village 2001, or Brieves with its stone arches, elements of high ethnographic value that link the hórreos (raised granaries) with the houses, etc.

Its capital, Ḷḷuarca, a picturesque, beautiful and historic fishing village, is known as the White Village of the Costa Verde. There are many charming places thatḶḷuarca has, with its seven bridges, its fishing port, its viewpoints, the Barrio de Villar with its examples of Indian architecture, the old fishing quarters of El Cambaral and La Pescadería, the emblematic hermitage of La Atalaya, the lighthouse, the Mesa del Gremio de Mareantes y Navegantes, the Jardines de la Fonte Baixa, or the Cemetery, considered one of the most beautiful in Spain due to its location overlooking the sea.

And of course, it has restaurants and cider bars where you can taste exquisite fish and seafood from the Bay of Biscay. A territory that is sensitive to culture, knowledge and history, such as that exuded by the medieval tower of Villademoros... This is Valdés.

Population: 13,241 inhabitants
Surface area: 353,52 km2
Weekly markets: Wednesday (L.luarca) and second and fourth Monday of each month (Trevías).

Valdés
GPS: 43.5456208,-6.5336575