Page 12 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide 2017 - Northern Spain

10  INTRODUCING NOR THERN SP AIN

DISCOVERING
NORTHERN SPAIN

The following tours have been designed to Compostela, a breathtaking medieval city of
take in as many of Northern Spain’s highlights cool grey stone. Next come three seven-day
as possible, while keeping long-distance tours, covering the pilgrim routes and wine
travel to a minimum. First come three two- regions of Navarra and La Rioja; the glorious
day tours of Northern Spain’s most alluring Asturian and Cantabrian coastline; and the
cities: Bilbao, home of the world-famous historic towns and villages of the Aragonese
Guggenheim Museum; San Sebastián, set and Catalan Pyrenees. Pick, combine and
around a beautiful bay and celebrated follow your favourite tours, or simply dip
for its superb cuisine; and Santiago de in and out and be inspired.

Atlantic Ocean
Luarca
Praia das Gijón
Catedrais Ribadeo Cudillero Ribadesella
A Coruña Villaviciosa Llanes Santander Castro
Oviedo Comillas Laredo Urdiales
Cangas Covadonga
de Onís Bilbao San Sebastián
(Donostia)
Lugo (Bilbo)
Santiago de Roncesvalles Bosque
Compostela de Irati
Vitoria Pamplona Ochagavía
(Gasteiz) (Iruña) Valle de Vall d’Aran Arties
Parque Nacional de
Estella Salazar Ordesa y Monte Perdido Vielha Salardú
Haro Sangüesa Monasterio Jaca Val
de San Juan Aínsa de Boí
Costa Verde Santo Domingo Logroño Olite de la Peña Castillo Sort
de la Calzada de Loarre Arcusa La Seu
d’Urgell
Key Calahorra
• Admire some of the most
Vinyards and Pilgrim Paths
spectacular coastal scenery Huesca Adahuesca
in Spain at Ribadeo’s Praia Costa Verde
das Catedrais beach. Castles and Mountains
• Visit the delightful fishing
village of Cudillero, with Cueva de Tito Bustillo
its pretty houses spread Remarkable prehistoric paintings
steeply around the harbour. line the walls of these caves
in Ribadesella, which date back
• Enjoy the serenity of
to 22,000 BC.
Oviedo’s outstanding
Visigothic churches, and
feast on great tapas in the
city’s historic quarter.
• Watch cider being poured
from great heights, in
traditional style, at a sidrería
(cider house) in Villaviciosa.
• Soak up the sun on
Santander’s El Sardinero
beach, a marvellous stretch
of white sand backed by
belle époque buildings.
• Tuck into superb seafood
at one of the restaurants
overlooking the picturesque Santander
harbour of Castro Urdiales. Strolling along the harbour of Cantabria’s capital is a pleasant way to
spend some time in this lively city.
Vista de El Arenal de Bilbao (View of El Arenal in Bilbao), c.1783, by Luis Paret
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