Cerredo: Santa María, Mountain Trails and Rural Architecture

In the original village centre of Cerredo, the Church of Santa María de Cerredo stands on a small hill. The route to Laguna de Changreiro begins at the church. For your own planning, a clearly identified building and an equally clearly identified trail are presented as separate topics alongside one another.

Culture and Village Centre

The Church of Santa María de Cerredo is a small example of the rural architecture characteristic of western Asturias. The parish church of Santa María de Cerredo is designated as a Bien de Interés Cultural (BIC), an Asset of Cultural Interest. If you approach a place through its architectural heritage, you can consider its location, architectural type and BIC designation as separate aspects here.

Trails and Mountain Landscape

The route to Laguna de Changreiro is a moderately difficult ascent and runs along the sunny side of the Sierra de Degaña. The northwestern branch of the route through Cerredo’s mining and industrial landscape crosses the village centre and a stream along which several mills are located.

The route through Cerredo’s mining and industrial landscape has the headquarters of the Rural Parish Council as its central point for information, services and trail guidance. For planning your day, you can consider the ascent and the northwestern branch as trail topics with different emphases, without assuming a fixed order.

The topics mentioned can be given different weight when putting a stay in Cerredo into context: architectural heritage and the village centre represent a cultural approach, while the ascent, the mining and industrial landscape, and Puerto Cerredo provide landscape highlights. The choice therefore remains open between focusing on historical details, a route or a broader view of the surrounding area.

Surroundings

In the surroundings of Cerredo in Degaña lies Puerto Cerredo, a recreational area on an alpine meadow. If you want to distinguish between different landscape terms when planning, you can note Puerto Cerredo as a separate landscape topic alongside the routes.

Culture and trails remain separate planning topics. You can first decide whether to focus on architecture, an ascent or a landscape route; no fixed order is prescribed.

Historic Architecture

Casa Florencio is a traditional, L-shaped manor house in Cerredo dating from the 19th century. The Casa Florencio estate includes a granary with a slate roof and a chapel. The manor house thus combines its distinctive shape and historical period with two associated buildings.

A holiday apartment in Cerredo can be considered in terms of travel dates, room category and cancellation conditions. These three details relate to the accommodation question; the cultural and landscape topics described form a separate part of travel planning.

More Destinations

More destinations: Boal, Coaña, Villa, Cabo Peñas, Careses, Sinariega, Coviella and Tuiza de Abajo.

Information and Exhibitions

Casa Florencio in Cerredo houses the Degaña tourist information office, rooms for temporary exhibitions and the offices of the rural area administration.

For the overarching travel overview: Asturias.