- Tineo Western Asturias
- Distance: 3,4 kms
- Difficulty: Half
- Code: PR286
- On foot: 1 h. 30 min.
- Start point: The Faidal
- Tour type: Circular
- Layout of the route: Download kml
PR286
From the village of Pedregal, located on the AS-216 between La Espina and Tineo, take a road off to the left in the middle of the village.
The reference point is the village of El Pedregal, located on AS 216 between La Espina and Tineo, where you a road off to the left in the middle of the village.
The route starts in the village of El Faedal. Here, beside a chapel, you take the paved track that goes off to the left heading towards some houses that you will see in the background.
Shortly after, you will see a semi-demolished building in front of a white house. The trail then leaves the paved track, taking the grassy path to the right running between stone walls. The trail winds gradually downhill until reaching a chestnut wood. Shortly after, you ford La Regueirina Stream over some stones and the trail begins to head gently uphill for a short distance. Shortly after you come to El Faedal Mill. In a small clearing, you will find a table next to the remains of the mill, where you can still see the water sluice that drove the mill and the funnel where the water fell onto the wheel to move the entire system.
Next to the ruins, there is a path to the left of the building which heads up through the chestnut wood to soon join up with another path. When you reach this second path, continue straight on uphill. You will soon come to a huge ditch.
The trail continues along a wide path past a meadow on the left and shortly after leaves the chestnut grove. You should then head towards the high voltage line you will see in the background to reach the highest point on the trail.
Once there, turn left, continuing along the track, which soon becomes wider and closed off due to the stone walls around the meadows. From here you will be able to see Manteca Crag in the distance, in the borough of Belmonte. Once you reach a crossroads, you will see the village of El Faedal to the left, with the trail heading back to the village.
El Faidal - El Faidal 3
We take the village of El Pedregal as a reference point, located on the AS 216 between La Espina and Tineo, where we take a road that leads off to the left in the middle of the village.
The route begins in the village of El Faidal. Here, next to a hermitage, you take an asphalted track to the left, which heads towards some houses that can be seen in the background.
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Shortly afterwards you see a semi-derelict building in front of a white house, and then the route leaves the track, taking the path to the right, which runs between stone walls and with the ground completely covered in grass. Little by little, a winding path begins, which leads us to a chestnut grove.
Shortly afterwards, cross the Regueirina stream over some stones and begin a slight, short climb. Shortly afterwards we reach the mill of El Faidal. In a small clearing we find a table and next to it the remains of the mill, where we can still see the water channel leading to the mill and the funnel through which the water fell onto the wheel that moved the whole system.
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Next to it, a path leads off, leaving the building on the right, ascending through the chestnut grove, to meet up with a path shortly afterwards. When you reach this path, continue straight on, ascending and shortly afterwards coming across a huge ditch.
Continue along a wide path that leaves a meadow on the left, and shortly after leaves the chestnut grove, heading towards the high-voltage power line that you can see in the background, where you will find yourself at the highest point of the route.
Once there, we turn left, continuing along the track, which soon becomes wider and narrower due to the stone walls of the meadows and from where we can see Peña Manteca in the background, already in the council of Belmonte. Once at the crossroads, we can see the village of El Faidal on the left, to which we return along the track.