Let's Discover Panes, 
gateway to the Picos de Europa mountain range in northern Spain

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Panes is also the start of stage 1 of the GR-109 walking route, east to west, to Alles. In fact the GR-109 actually starts in this park at GR109 Panes Cp which is behind the Tilo Hotel. Later it joins the main road at GR109 Pannes1 from where it has 16.9 kilometers to go before it gets to Alles (If 'll' is a vowel sound in Spanish, how can you have a word with five letters and only one consonant, at the end, and still hope to pronounce it?).  From Panes it passes through Lies, Tobes, Bores, Orejuz, Mier, Niserias, and Besnes. It crosses the Rio Cares again at Mier and Niserias. If you want to walk the GR-109 from Panes, just park up behind Hotel Tilo, don't cross over the small road bridge but turn left instead, following the red and white markers, over a couple of wooden bridges until the concrete paths end and you are walking on white sand. Then go straight on until you come the main highway, turning right along it. A slightly longer but more interesting option would be to turn right at the car park and follow the river until you reach the same wooden bridge and white sand path.

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Route PR-AS-191 An easy circular walk around Sierra de Cuera, starting and finishing at Alevia, taking in Ceros Martin, Pico Cabrio and El Castinar. Distance: 13.6 km. Height above sea level: (Alevia 340 meters / Picu The Paisanu 800 meters). The ascent to Picu el Paisanu" (310 m) , northeast of town, is one of the routes most frequented by walkers in Peñamellera Baja. It is located in the Sierra del Cuera. After leaving Alevia, begin the ascent, by a concrete path, which brings us closer to the antenna Llueres telephony. Then we will move on a track of dirt and stone, for the most part, that leads to the former facilities of the iron and manganese mine at Pilar. This route continues to the right and while the former mine track is running smoothly until "The Braña Pipe", where the real climb begins "the weevil", which the north face, without a road course will end with the crowning to the chapel located at the top. . The return will be back to La Escala and from there by a little way back Alevia. As for architectural heritage, consider the Church of San Juan Bautista (with Gothic elements), the Chapel of San Antonio (although rebuilt now, it seems that it could have been another of Romanesque origin, according to some researchers) Clock Tower (near the former building, constructed in the mid twentieth century) as well as several buildings of traditional character and mansions-popular Indian flavour.

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Route PR-AS-20, the Bres Route, a circular walk around the Sierra L'Argayu. The route begins and ends in Bres, Distance: 5 km. Difficulty: Easy. Itinerary: Bres - Molino de Logares - Bres - Mazo de Bres - Loutima - Bres. This route is a short walk near the town of Brescia. It is divided into two parts. 

First: Leave from the town center (church) to the Molino de Logares mill, past the old school (1911), responding to Indian architecture model. Bres has a great diversity of granaries and Cabazos, including a copy of mixing the Asturian and Galician culture. Since the school is down at the end of the village, where you can watch a craftsman making knives, go to the cemetery, where the path descends towards the mill.

Second: You leave the bar that is next to the highway, which crosses to take a path that goes through some meadows up to the river, cross the bridge and continues along the right bank of river to Mazo de Bres, which is now in ruins but you can still see the water outlet channel. The route continues along a path through meadows and crops up to Loutima, where you can visit a knife craftsman. The return is made by the same path to Bres 

PR-AS-208, the San Esteban Route,  north west of Potes. A circular walk through Sierra Nedrina, to San Esteban. Distance: 9 kilometers,  Route: San Esteban (240 m),  Colláu La Galabín (1000 m), total 750 meters of altitude. Easy. Park at San Esteban de Cuñaba. Just before the village, on the right there is a path that crosses the San Esteban River by a stone bridge. There is only one option, to follow up the valley, to gain the 750 m difference in level. The trail ascends a slope more or less smooth, up to Sombeju where there is a spectacular 15m waterfall. All the way south you can see the river and the Sierra de Cocón as well as the north walls of the Sierra de Nedrina.  From the waterfall you leave this wide road and to the right (the only place where you can go) begins a steep climb of about 300 m leading to Gabalín Col. Here there is a circular pond of about 3-4 m diameter. From here no noticeable good option exists, and the ascent is culminated following the route that sees easier, because in clear days it does not have any difficulty. The houses of the locality of San Esteban are, generally, small and of rural type. Next to this locality is the Recreational Area and Forest of San Esteban and the Mirador del Cuetu La Bea.

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Walking in the Picos de Europa - The walking here is out of this world. CLICK HERE for details of the walks I recommend together with GPS coordinates. In Spain , waymarked trails, considered as short-distance (PR) if they are less than 50 km long and can be completed in two days or less, are marked with white and yellow paint. 

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