Discover La Pesa: Trails, Culture and Cheese
Accommodation in La Pesa
La Pesa lies along the fourth stage of the Camino de Santiago from Nueva to Ribadesella: around 300 metres of the route run along La Pesa road. After the church section, the path descends to La Pesa and then continues to the road to Llames.
File:Antiguo lavadero y fuente " Laria " , La Pesa- Llames de Parres , Asturias. - panoramio.jpg
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Nature and Trails
The Ruta de los Bufones (P.R.AS-57) also includes La Pesa on its 11.2-kilometre route from Llames. It is a circular trail of low difficulty and takes around four and a half hours. The different trail lengths, routes and time frames help you compare the two trails and adjust your own planning accordingly.
When comparing holiday apartments in La Pesa, pay attention to the travel dates, room category and cancellation conditions of each offer. The specific contractual details are relevant alongside the area's scenic and cultural points of reference.
To explore other places as well, you can include Coya, Sotres, Triongo, Cuerres, Borines, El Tejedal, Naves and Priede in your plans.
You can structure your visit thematically: trails, crafts, religious buildings, residential architecture and literary history offer different ways of approaching the area. The various trail types and time estimates can be considered separately from the cultural topics if you do not want to plan your days around a single focus. Individual buildings, names, dates and traditional forms also provide independent points of reference for your personal travel planning.
Local highlights
Quesos de Pría operates a customer-oriented cheese dairy in La Pesa de Pría and produces cheese using traditional methods and family recipes passed down through generations.
Los Pindales is a country house in La Pesa de Pría that is open year-round, fully rented out, accommodates four people and has two bedrooms.
Culture
The Iglesia de San Pedro de Pría is a 19th-century church situated on elevated ground. Its rectangular floor plan includes a square chancel, a southern portico and a three-storey bell tower on the west side.
Pepín de Pría, an Asturian poet who wrote in the Asturian language, was born in La Pesa on 14 December 1864.
Architecture
The Casa de Elvira Cristal is a detached, rectangular two-storey single-family house. Its main façade consists of two building sections.
The Casa del Calvario has an architrave portal surround on its main façade, with an axially aligned window above it and, to the right, a coat of arms bearing the inscriptions “POR MI REY Y/ POR MIEDO/ BENZERE I O MORIRE” and “ARMAS DE LA CASSA DE POSSADA RC”.
The Capilla de La Salú, or Santu Domingo, was commissioned in 1699 by Domingo de la Conya, a resident of La Pesa.
It is privately owned and attached to a residential building.
For the overarching travel overview: Oriente De Asturias.
