GUIDE TO THE NORTHERN WAYS OF ST. JAMES

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Vega (Sariego) > Oviedo

Via A Proba de Burón > 345.7 km

02

(26.9 km)

El Berró n

Noreña

La Cuesta

3,5 km. Pola de Sier o

San Martín

AS- 1

Bendición Posada

Celles

Pola de Siero

Ullaga 358

Llorianes

Vega

Soto

9,8 km.

462 AS-249

Sograndio

AS-24 8

San Roque Traspando

Careses

300

Aveno

250

Barbecho

N

Lieres

Vega de Sariego

Etapa 18,8 km.

Miyares

La Vega de Sariego

Loriana Lampajúa

Iglesia S. Antonio de Pádua

N-630 AS-1

Oviedo

AS-18

Salas

3,3 km

Casazorrina

7,5 km

Monasterio del Salvador

AS-15

AS-16

Dóriga Sta. Eulalia

San Marcelo

Cerro del Capellán

El Llano Ules

AS-232

LatoresColloto/CuallotoN-634

100

0

Sendín

Sto. Meder o

150

50

General view,Villamar Oviedo

Sta. María

AS-226

Bulse

Ntra. Señora

El Freisnu

Cabruñana

N

AS-26 7

Quintanal

Malpica

La Llorál La Pola Siero Las Mazas Las Campas El Berrón Granda

200

Villanueva

AS-228

Quex o

Ponteo

San Martín

N-63 4

A-64

Escamplero

Gallegos

11,3 km

Vigil

de Nora

429

Oviedo

Castiello

Vega de Sarieg o

Peña

Trubia

La Rotella

Castiello

112

Orviz

Ferrera

La Carrera

Valdesoro

AS-246

El Berrón

4,5 km

Argüelles La Vallina

Nora

2,8 km 5,5 km

Barreda

Meres

Premoño

Fueyo

N

6,7 km.

Mieres Fozana

3,5 km

Conceyín

La Sierra

San Pedro

km.

that got a large part of the European population on the road. In the Late This town was built over the old Hostel of San Pedro for “pilgrims and paupers” Salas Middle Ages, going on a pilgrimage to the Cathedral of San Salvador de Oviedo and and founded with the authorisation of Godán its Holy Chamber, where several sacred S. Martín Ermita King Alfonso X in the 13th century. It has del Viso AS-226 relics were kept, became a reason to visit had an important role as a trading post Mallecín La Barrosa the capital of the Asturian kingdom. Many ever since the 18th century, when the of those pilgrims followed the French Baroque Palace of the Marquis of Santa Villamar Way and, after visiting the remains of Cruz de Marcenado was built. We must also mention the increasing La Sala significance Casazorrina San Isidoro in León, took a detour up the Pajares mountain pass and down and activity of its cattle market, to Oviedo before following their way to nowadays considered the most important Santiago. In the 9th century, the Asturian establishment of its type in Spain and one King Alfonso II the Chaste travelled from Quintana of the most important in Europe. Allence his court in Oviedo to a place called Iria Colloto/Cualloto (3,375 pop.) Flavia (in the present-day village of Padrón) Lorísto visit the recently discovered tomb of It used to be on the old mediaeval road Villazón from La Pola Siero to Oviedo, and it is the the Apostle Saint James. This was surely Villampero last village we will find before entering the first pilgrimage to Compostela. News Moteagudo the Asturian capital. A mediaeval bridge of the discovery of Saint James’s tomb Villaraba originally built by the Romans will help us La Calzada echoed throughout Europe, and the “Field Borreras Llamas cross the Nora River. Another noteworthy of Stars” or “Campus Stellae” that Santiago Villacarisme site is the Church of Santa Eulalia, with a de Compostela was named after, and Espinedo Romanesque triumphal arch. in which the Asturian monarch ordered Folgueiras that a church be built to hold the saint’s Oviedo (187,846 pop.) relics, became one of the most important The capital of theQuintoños Principality of Asturias Sobrerriba pilgrimage centres in the Christian world. was not just a stop, but also aCornellana destination, in the large-scale pilgrimage phenomenon (San Juan) N-634

5,2 km

La Viella Fresneda AS-17

Granda

Pelayo

However, in the old quarter of Oviedo, Peñaflor Sestiello travellers will feel they have goneSan back Juan in time to the Asturian Middle Ages. The Anzu phenomenon of pilgrimage Guileiro was crucial for the cultural and demographic growth of 369 Puerma Vega d’Ànzu Oviedo, as well as for the creation of new AS-232 services and for the transformation of a royal and ecclesiastical town into somewhat Somines Sta. Eulaia Sta. Ana of a universally known urban centre. Let us not forget that the Cathedral of San Premoño Salvador and its Holy Chamber were a Ania major pilgrim destination in the Middle Sta. Ages María Fluejo de Grau (not as massive as Jerusalem and Rome, A-63 but almost as important as Santiago de Prañes N-634 S. Pedr o Compostela). Rañeces Valsera

N

Linares

Naón

La Pola Siero (12,830 pop.) Etapa 19,5

Sta. Eulalia de Dóriga Cornellana

Colloto 2,3 km.

Colloto

Sta. Eulalia

3,3 km

Lugones

Villamiana

Villapañada

Corredoria

Abuli

Grau

4,6 km.

Cuyences

Peñaflor

Nora

AS-18

El Pontón de Vaqueros

Escamplero

Oviedo

Oviedo A-66

Granda

Etapa 27,4 km.

After passing Sariego, pilgrims will cross the municipality of Siero through surprisingly flat and accessible lands in comparison San Juan de Villapañada with the otherwise mountainousSan Asturian Juan Acevedo landscape. As is usually the case when we AS-237 approach a big town (in this case Oviedo, the Sandiche Grau / capital of Asturias), the landscape becomes Agüera Gardo increasingly less pretty and more urban and La Matiega Entrelosríos industrialised. Cuero San

S. Juan de Villapañada

Etapa 26,9 km.

San Juan de Villapañada Acevedo

San Juan

Rozadas

Oviedo Colloto bridge

Etapa 28,5 km.

Etapa 20,9 km.

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