- Yernes y Tameza Asturias Centre
- Distance: 14,7 kms
- Difficulty: Half
- Altitude: 1.087
- Unevenness: 397
- On foot: 4 h.
- Start point: Yernes
- Tour type: One way
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This route starts in the beautiful mountain village of Yernes, which preserves an important and valuable ethnographic heritage, as well as very well preserved traditional buildings. We leave the car in the village.
Yernes seems almost like a fairytale village, so close and yet so far away, barely an hour's drive from Oviedo on a beautiful, winding mountain road that takes us to a paradise between forests and mountains, on a hill from which a track leads to a no less heavenly place, the pastures of the brañas altas, where our final destination, Cuevallagar, is to be found.
From here a track gains height and perspective over the village and its surroundings, and as we ascend we cross Braña Senra, with its magnificent huts, and approach the water pools that supply the cattle watering troughs. The landscape is gaining in breadth and beauty.
On the other side, the green pastures of these mountain areas, which alternate with the heathland and where we can see foxes crossing paths, among cows and horses, as we walk or cycle towards the Cuevallagar field, with its curious shepherds' shelter made of stone and shaped like a pyramid-shaped trunk.
And below, at the bottom of the field, where a small stream disappears, is the cave that gives its name to the place. A refuge for wild and domestic fauna, where bats make it their home, choughs a temporary shelter and cows and horses graze. A work of art sculpted by the water in the limestone, from where we will return later to retrace our steps.
Yernes 14,7
In the first 250 metres of the route, around the last houses of the village, we find a track to the left, which we take without turning off until we reach kilometre 2.5, approximately, where the path joins another on a larger track that we follow until we reach Cuevallar or Cuevallagar, a large cavity located in the monument of the Marabio passes, in the foothills of the Loral Peak.
Once we have visited and enjoyed the surroundings of Cuevallagar, we turn back along the same path until we reach the starting point, the village of Yernes, where our route ends. That is to say, we do the route again, but in the opposite direction, following the previous steps.