After being all day Saturday fighting with the sofa, without leaving home because of bad weather was snowing throughout Asturias even levels of about two hundred yards, because Sunday February 14, 2010 and not take it anymore I decided to do a walk of about three hours in the area of \u200b\u200bPola de Lena.
Around 10 am I arrive by train to Pola de Lena with a temperature of one degree marking the thermometer of the season, snowing I turn to hot coffee and a great café Pastelín in La Palmera while waiting to see if I left the snow to start the trip after reading all the newspapers to make time with the hope to calm down a little time, given that this had not happened I took courage, it entertains me and I started walking.
I speak with a freezing cold and snowing at the pedestrian walkway and step over the highway, past the bridge turn left to take the carreterín that goes to the people of the Valley is about two kilometers of the gateway and constant slope. Before reaching
town of El Valle and snowing all the time passing through an area called The Champs where I find a band of hunters who must be as crazy as I leave home for a day like this, once reached the town of El Valle, in the first houses is a path to the right bonding that goes to the center of town, where we found a beautiful fountain and a sink where we have several dilapidated signs of a route, including the PR-AS 85 which is what I I. Cargo
canteen of fresh water at the source where I come to greet a couple of Perrin and grab a track that runs between trees llanea and very easy to walk if it were not for the mud, but you could wait a day today's, well that with patience I leaned toward the edges of the road to try to avoid the mud as possible, the Perrin family who accompanied me for a while, the truth was that they worried very little mud and caleya status.
The road has not lost at any time and is very easy to walk and almost all the time going flat or downhill, the time came to a fork where you find a hut with a meadow, at this point we take the branch that goes right and goes next to the stone hut, the little hut pass that starts a descent along an ancient road, wide, paved with stones and very loose and slippery because of snow that was falling water in such moments.
The laundry of the village of El Valle, where we indicate the way forward.
The pretty village of El Valle
The road we take to leave the village of El Valle
As you can see the cold at that time was very intense
The famous bridge and the lovely town of Columbiello
Soon came to a creek that I had been told was not to be no problem to cross over the rocks but have who was the handsome he ran through the flood that brought due to bad weather this winter, so I had to build patience jump back a few yards to a farm and being on a bridge all "tacky" that was on that farm (see photo) and then climbing back to get another died at a local road that goes to the pretty village of Columbiello, once there is a path that cemented carreterín which is what we have to continue without fail to enter the village, but as was premature and did not know Columbiello went for a walk and getting lost in its streets to meet and make a picture and refresh in the magnificent village fountain next to the laundry room and a dilapidated old mill and unfortunate as most Mills in Asturias and as not knowing the church of San Vicente where I did a break as he talked a little with a very nice Señoriño gave me the right signals in order not to lose on my way to Santa Cristina de Lena.
After visiting the village to take back a few meters above the road, I follow this path width and land that later became close with many stones and very slippery due to its inclination, the time came to a couple of houses beside the road where I agree with a shell of Camino de Santiago, a white label and rock Camino de la Plata and the white and yellow that I am following, a little more and have wall to put more marks because in that point confluence of three roads, at this point turn left to go with the intention of heading towards La Cobertoria. Shortly after walking
arrived at the magnificent resort of La Cobertoria where we seem to tally transported to the time of the films of José Luis Garci, since this station is perfectly preserved and guara the charm of yesteryear stations and take them stations of today are anything like those of that time.
In what was once this great station have a "Hall of Romanesque" where they explain the history of the church of Santa Cristina, the penalty is that when I arrived it was already closed since closes at one and a half and I arrived ten minutes later.
After asking a few pictures of this magnificent station, I pass under the tracks to take a paved road that leaves the house in front of the station, but soaring in no time we look at the esplanade where this jewel of Romanesque art is the hermitage of Santa Cristina.
This chapel was declared a National Monument in 1985 and declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
completely restored in 1893 by Juan Bautista Lázaro, who will reconstruct the central dome, ruined at least three centuries earlier.
This shrine is located totally awesome isolated on a hill and surrounded by beautiful countryside, this church that there is no reference in contemporary documents, is considered the last construction ramiriense period.
Well then after doing a lot of pictures with all the tranquility of the world since the day I visited was just to shelter me a little into the porch to wait for some time to subside and I started to fall again to the station Cobertoria not more than ten minutes, expect a little cold dead station to pass the train back home that is not the day for more.
Pablo Lara.
Difficulty: None.
Time: With stops for photos and calmly about three hours.
tally sepia Vista reminds us of another time, the magnificent resort of La Cobertoria.
Santa Cristina de Lena, the jewel in the crown
This last picture was taken from inside the porch, where he was waiting to be protected time to calm down a bit
