Cardes: Holiday Apartments Between Cave Culture and Mountain Trails

Cardes is home to the Cueva de El Buxu, which has been designated a Cultural Asset of Special Interest (Bien de Interés Cultural) within the municipality of Cangas de Onís. Near Cardes, the cave contains paintings and engravings of horses, goats, deer and bison, as well as geometric and zoomorphic figures.

If you are considering a holiday apartment in Cardes, you can compare travel dates, room category and cancellation policies on the respective offer pages. The choice of location can be structured according to culture, hiking and cycling; separate focuses keep travel planning clear. You can consider the information on travel dates, room category and cancellation policies alongside your preferred focus for the trip, without combining the cultural destinations, hiking routes and cycling routes into a single selection. The three themes therefore form separate comparison levels for personal travel planning.

Culture

The footpath to the Cueva de El Buxu begins at the first houses in Cardes and takes a little over 20 minutes. For your planning, you can consider the starting point and walking time as separate details alongside the longer hiking and cycling routes.

Hiking

The GR-108 Travesía Andariega route follows a path towards Cardes but does not enter the village. The Villamayor–Espinaréu hiking stage reaches Cardes through meadows and grazing land.

The route to Pico el Arbolín is a 13-kilometre circular mountain hike of moderate difficulty. An optional extension of the route to Pico el Arbolín descends to Cardes and then continues along the CO-3 road.

The summit of Picu el Arbolín is 575 metres high and offers a 360-degree panoramic view of the basins of the Sella and Güeña rivers, the Cantabrian Mountains and the Picos de Europa. You can compare the different route lengths, terrain types and courses separately when putting together your own hiking days. The circular route, optional descent and directional course of the GR-108 are different route characteristics. This allows the routes around Cardes to be considered according to the respective route, without combining the described courses into a single trail.

Cycling

The GR-109 BTT route is a 33.5-kilometre mountain-bike trail of moderate difficulty, with an estimated duration of three hours. At the bridge in Cardes, the GR-109 BTT route crosses the CO-3 and then follows the Güeña River.

The Cangas de Onís–Colombres cycling route reaches Cardes before ascending. After Cardes, it follows a lightly trafficked road through meadows and small rural villages.

When comparing cycling options, length, estimated duration, difficulty and landscape profile provide different decision points. You can read the tour description according to the desired activity theme and keep the route information separate from one another.

Other destinations: Mestas De Con, Cangas De Onis, Igena, Beceña, Peruyes, Tornín, Soto De Cangas, Arriondas

To the higher-level travel overview: Cangas De Onis.