San Salvador del Valledor: Holiday Apartments, Cultural Heritage and River Valleys

An administrative procedure has been initiated to designate San Salvador del Valledor as protected cultural heritage in the category of “historic ensemble.” The settlement group is considered a well-preserved example of traditional architecture in western Asturias.

Culture

The traditional houses in the settlement group feature the Turria or Talud building types, adapted to the slope, as well as the cabin-style building type. The historic building stock includes ancillary buildings and structures such as paneras, hórreos, cortinos, parreiros, mills and smithies. Local building traditions include slate for roof tiles and building walls, as well as chestnut or oak wood for gates, cornices, and the structures and walls of hórreos and paneras.

The parish church of San Salvador is an important example of publicly used cultural heritage within the settlement group. Bronze Age rock carvings were found at Pena Colmea in San Salvador and in its immediate surroundings. The Castro de San Salvador is regarded as evidence of a Celtic settlement of the Pésicos. Roman gold mining was carried out in Valledor around 2,000 years ago.

Customs and Paths

Os Reises del Valledor is a traditional winter masquerade from the Allande and Ibias area. The masquerade was one of the winter masking customs revived after disappearing for half a century. On one occasion, the procession travelled from Villalaín via San Salvador to Fonteta.

The Camín Real, also known as the Camín de Misa, connected San Salvador del Valledor with the other settlements in the historic group. It also connected the three settlements with the parish church of San Salvador and its cemetery. Much of the historic path now corresponds to the AS-34 regional road. For orientation, the historic connecting path, the church path and the present-day road layout can be considered separately.

The different traces appeal to different interests: architecture and the church are concentrated in the settlement itself, the masquerade relates to a custom in the Allande and Ibias area, while the paths, river and valleys make the spatial relationships of Valledor visible. For planning your own day, these themes can be considered separately without combining them into a single attraction.

When choosing a holiday apartment for San Salvador del Valledor, travel dates, room category and cancellation conditions can be practical points of comparison. These details can be reviewed side by side on the respective pages, while the decision about the stay remains separate from the impressions created by the cultural heritage, custom, historic paths and landscape.

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Landscape

The usual road access to San Salvador del Valledor is via the ALL-6. Its junction is at Alto del Pozo de las Mujeres Muertas, at an elevation of 1,098 m on the AS-29, which connects Cangas del Narcea with San Antolín de Ibias. The Valledor River forms the central axis of San Salvador del Valledor; the two valleys and their rivers converge at the foot of San Salvador. The landscape therefore brings together the river course, valley areas and the historic settlement relationships around San Salvador.

For the general travel overview: Allande.