Cazo: Torre de Cazo, Trails and Fiesta del Aguinaldo

In Cazo, the Cazu-Collau Fornoriu route begins at the Torre Medieval de Cazo, where the vehicle can be parked. The Torre de Cazo is of medieval origin and is one of the oldest buildings in Asturias. It is strategically located above the valley of the Ponga River.

For your planning, you can distinguish between historical details, a scheduled event date and active routes.

Culture

The Fiesta del Aguinaldo is celebrated in the parish of Cazo on Carnival Saturday. During the Fiesta del Aguinaldo, young men ride decorated horses through Cazo and through Ambingue, Los Laderos, Tribierto, Cortes, Priesca and Sellaño.

The Iglesia de Santa María de las Nieves has a cruciform floor plan with a single nave and two chapels. Wall and ceiling paintings have been preserved in the southern chapel of the Iglesia de Santa María de las Nieves.

The PR.AS-212 passes several hórreos and paneras in Cazu, displaying numerous examples of equipment formerly used for agricultural work.

If you mentally separate culture and physical activity, the historical information remains readable independently of the route profiles. For combined planning, you can first decide whether the focus should be on local history, an event date or a route.

Hiking and Cycling

For your daily planning, you can classify the activities described by mode of transport, route length, duration and difficulty level. The Cazu-Collau Fornoriu route is moderately difficult, has 300 metres of elevation gain, is 3.5 kilometres long and takes 2 hours. It runs along small livestock trails.

The Cangas de Onís-Sobrefoz cycling tour is a 47-kilometre-long, very difficult, linear route for road bikes. It leads from Collado Moande downhill to Cazu and then to Sellañu through increasingly rugged mountain terrain. As a point of interest, the cycling tour includes the medieval tower of Cazu.

The different details help you consider the route and the road-bike tour separately. When planning your trip, this allows you to compare different types of activities and route profiles side by side.

When selecting a holiday apartment in Cazo, you can compare your own travel dates with the room category and cancellation conditions on the listing pages. This information helps you review different offers along your personal travel plan; you can note your interest in buildings, trails and landscape areas as separate points of comparison.

Related local pages: San Ignacio, Taranes, Sellaño

When planning your trip, you can distinguish the specific routes from the information about the natural park and consider both according to your own priorities. The information about the park supplements the specific local and route details with a broader view of the municipality.

Cazo belongs to the municipality of Ponga, whose entire territory is included in Ponga Natural Park. In the municipality of Ponga, the Centro de Interpretación del Parque Natural de Ponga offers a permanent exhibition about the forest as an ecosystem, as well as information about the park's hiking trails and viewpoints.

For the higher-level travel overview: Ponga.