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Stage 18

Stage from Llanes to San Esteban de Leces

km 33,9

Time 08H 25’

Difficulty Medium

Hostels 4

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Fun stage with many parishes in Llanes and Ribadesella

Information about the stage 18: Stage from Llanes to San Esteban de Leces

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Points of interest in the stage 18: Stage from Llanes to San Esteban de Leces

9 Albergue de peregrinos de San Esteban de Leces
8 Albergue juvenil Roberto Frasinelli
7 Ribadesella
6 Church of Piñeres de Pría
5 Monastery of Celorio
4 Poo
3 Albergue Llanes Playa de Poo
2 Cubos de la memoria de Ibarrola de Llanes
1 Basilica of Santa Maria

The route

The exit of Llanes is not conveniently signalized and by common sense we advance through AS-263 towards Ribadesella. The first night of the day is at the height of the Tanatorio Villa de Llanes and leads us to Poo on an old road (Km 2).

Arriving at the parish church with a white facade and tile, the best option is not to follow the signs and go to the train tracks and cross them. We continue along the road to Ribadesella and leave it on the right to take a road that leads to Celorio, village of Llanes that grew around the Monastery of San Salvador and from which there are currently only some vestiges of its Romanesque origin (Km 4.3). Leaving it aside we find our feet on the beach.

The following milestones are Barro and Niembro, two other tourist towns of the Council of Llanes. Among them is the church of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores. With high tide we will see this neoclassical temple reflected in the marsh. After this delight, a left hand path links to Niembro (Km 8). We went off the road and then we took a runway that flows back into the AS-263. For a pedestrian walk you can admire the Playa de San Antolín and the mouth of the Bedón River. An ad stamp thanks to the railway track that runs it.

Thus we reach Naves where more than a third of the stage has already passed (Km 12,3). We are now heading towards Villahormes through the old Camino Real that united Llanes with Ribadesella. On the verge of this journey is the chapel of the Ánimas, a humiliator of the 12th century that a group of vandals tore apart the dawn of September 1, 2012. From Villahormes (Km 13.2) we continue to Nueva de Llanes, a town with all the services where we can recover forces (Km 16.1). Attention because if we are going to sleep in Piñeres de Pría, the next locality, it is indispensable to buy in Nueva since in Piñeres there are no services, only a bar that does not give meals.

Again we retake the AS-263, leaving it on a path that starts right before the crossing level with barriers. We lined a long line after saving the A-8 to reach Piñeres de Pría (Km 18). In this locality there is a hostel of 8 places and from mid-May to mid-September 36 places are available in the rectoral house. The owner of the rural house, Rosa Cueto, formed the Association Halfway, of help to the pilgrim and have credentials. We leave Piñeres, in front of us, without taking the detour to the AS-263, because a badly placed cairn can confuse us, and later on, on the left hand arises a herbose section, which usually gets tangled with ease, which goes up, field through included, to the church of San Pedro that stands out for its bell tower.

We go down to Cuerres by the way that goes by the water tank and as the first houses pass, the most logical thing is to cross the way of the FEVE, however the official route continues to the right giving a great rodeo. In Cuerres, a German family offers traditional welcome at home. We arrived at the medieval bridge of Aguamía, recently restored, and thus entered the Council of Ribadesella (Km 22.5). Later we did cross the road and follow everything straight to Ribadesella, to which we arrived in more than an hour after touring the sites of Sobars and Pozu la Arena.

The entrance to Ribadesella is through the back door, in principle it does not stop any attractiveness but suddenly we are immersed in the street plot of the El Portiellu district. We descend through the historic town of the villa looking for the driveway over the Sella, an objective that is also marked by thousands of palists every summer when they take the exit at the Arrionda bridge in the International Descent (Km 29).

In the past, when there was no bridge, the pilgrims saved the river by boat from the chapel of Santa Ana . Now no, so if our goal is San Esteban, we will cross the concrete bridge to get into modern Ribadesella. After the Sella, the signals make us turn right. With a slight rodeo we will reach the promenade of the beach of Santa Marina, ending on the local road that leads to San Pedro (Km 32,6), and that after a very intense repecho (at some point is more rested climbing in zig zag) will leave the village of Abeu aside. A Jacobean cairn guide left to the next hostel in San Esteban de Leces (Km 33.9).

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What to see, what to do

In San Esteban de Leces, next to the hostel, we can admire the church. It was an old Romanesque temple that had to be rebuilt after the civil war. Nearby is the Torre de San Esteban, also called of the Ruiz de Junco. It's a medieval tower built between the 14th and 15th centuries.

It is very likely that the foundation of Ribadesella will be located in the thirteenth century under the reign of Alfonso X El Sabio. The population prospered during the Middle Ages partly to the shipyards and thanks to the wood they were going down the Sella river. Fishing activities focused on whaling and salmon fishing through nets. The 14th and 15th centuries had many years of struggle due to the strategic situation of the villa. Thus, noble families such as Quiñones, Álvarez de las Asturias, Ruiz or Junco disputed power. The Chiñones were defeated but the Catholic Monarchs returned Ribadesella to the crown. Another important moment in his particular history took place at the end of the 18th century when Carlos III awarded a game for the improvement works of the port. During the nineteenth century, as in other localities, the French invasion came to paralyse progress and to collapse some of the already advanced. This was also the case during the Spanish Civil War. For example, the current concrete bridge replaced the previous iron structure destroyed during the Spanish conflict in 1940.

Pietro Cutre Palace: Plateresco, from the 16th century, today is the current seat of the City of Ribadesella.
Chapel of Santa Ana: Located on Santa Ana Street was restored in 1995. Curious to be the seat of the Gremio del Mar, extinguished in 1846.
Chapel of the Virgen de la Guía: We will come to it by a stone road that leaves from the port. From this place there are some formidable views of Ribadesella and the mouth.
Playa de Santa Marina: With a kilometer and a half length this sandy area remained unchanged until the construction, at the end of the 19th century, of the iron bridge over the Sella. Then began its urban exploitation with palaces and modernist chalets that were occupied by members of the aristocracy and the high Asturian and Madrid bourgeoisie. Now it has a boardwalk and in summer it has a rather high occupation and is suitable for practicing water sports.