Senda Verde San Martín de Oscos
- San Martín de Oscos Western Asturias
- Distance: 7,3 kms
- Difficulty: Short
- Code: PR243
- Altitude: 650 m.
- Unevenness: 388 m.
- On foot: 2 h.
- Start point: Samartin
- Tour type: Circular
- Layout of the route: Download kml, Download gpx
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Samartín offers us the chance to take a quiet, gentle stroll, in which the hand of man is present everywhere.
A landscape of gentle hills in which pastures and meadows alternate with wooded patches that form this mosaic of vegetation and nature where the large brooms also play an important part in the scrub phase.
Charcoal, birch, oak and chestnut trees alternate along the route and, together with blueberries, tell us about the acidity of these soils. Among them, some large houses and a water feature that is so typical everywhere, from when the water did not reach the houses, but a fountain with its washing place and trough.
A route to get to know the ancient and current way of life in this part of Asturias.
Route
Samartín - Samartín 7,65
The route starts in the village of Samartín in the council of San Martín de Oscos. The path takes us to Loujedo on one side and back on the other, in a circular route. To begin the route, leave the house in the village on your right and join the path that leaves the road at the house.
After the first 800 metres of the route we come to the first fork, where we must continue to the left and then turn left again. A few metres further on, take the path on the right, as the one on the left leads to a private property.
After a kilometre and a half, after having passed a young carbarn, we come to several crossroads with a lot of paths in a row. For our route the instructions are: right, then left, and at the third crossroads we have to take the path that appears immediately to our right.
When we have walked about 2.7 kilometres, in the middle of this oak grove we come to a fork, where we choose the path to the right. The next kilometre further on, turn left and then right to reach Loujedo. Once we reach the nucleus of houses, turn left at the first street and then continue straight on.
On leaving the village we will find a fountain just before reaching the next fork, where we continue straight on, crossing the path perpendicularly.
Once we reach kilometre 5 of the route, we will find a recreational area at the highest point of the route, and from here we will have a wonderful panoramic view of the entire territory that surrounds our route.
After another kilometre from the previous point, you will come to more crossroads. At the first two, turn right, and some 250 metres further on, at the crossroads, continue straight on until you reach a group of water-related structures, including a washing place, a drinking trough and a fountain.
Almost at the end of our route, at kilometre 7, there is another crossroads, where we turn left towards the AS-13 road. Cross the road perpendicularly and continue along the path that will take us back to Samartín, the starting and end point of this route.