Asturias Tourist Guide 2018

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Come home to Paradise

accommodation at a modest price, with a welcome package and transfer if you are more than 500 m form the route. Hotel hopping in Asturias is another option with special services for pilgrims, such as massages, an express laundry service and bike storage, and you can collect points and earn free nights. Other interesting services include the guided cultural and staged visit through the origins of the first St. James’s Way or the free mobile app, which guides you using GPS and contains information of the different stages, the location of the hostels, restaurants and even physiotherapists and architectural and cultural landmarks. Correos (national postal service) also has a special service offering the transport of equipment between stages, posting of clothes and purchases and a special bicycle service.

The Principality can make up part of a larger journey or be a starting point. measuring 39 kilometres in total. If you prefer to pass through Gijón and Avilés first, there is another 28.8-kilometre-long section leading to the interior. If you choose Asturias as a starting point, you must fill in the document so you can receive the Pilgrim’s Passport that you can get stamped as you go and will mean you can get the Compostela at the end of the journey, when you arrive in Compostela. It is important to plan beforehand. As well as organising stages, there are many other useful services worth taking into consideration. The Cider Region offers the Pilgrim’s Pass, which includes

Don’t miss... ʝ ʝ El Salvador statue in the Cathedral of Oviedo. ʝ ʝ Monastery of San Salvador de Cornellana (Salas) ʝ ʝ Salas Collegiate Church ʝ ʝ Monastery of Santa María la Real de Obona (Tineo) ʝ ʝ Peñalba Cienfuegos Mansion (Allande) ʝ ʝ Chao Samartín Castro (Grandas de Salime)

More information at: asturiastourism.co.uk/ StJamesWay

St.James’s Way (Villaviciosa)