Villarquille: Discover Culture and Mountain Landscapes

Casa del Marco stands on the elevated edge of Villarquille, with views stretching from there across forests and mountains.

The Capilla de San Antonio is located in the village and is part of Asturias' cultural heritage. Also in Villarquille is the Ermita de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios, which enjoys the greatest public veneration in the municipality of San Martín de Oscos.

These places offer two perspectives on Villarquille: religious culture and the connection between built heritage and landscape. The themes can be considered separately: religious veneration, Asturian cultural heritage, rural life and paths through the Oscos.

Culture

Villarquille is home to Casa del Marco – Museo de la Casa Campesina, a farmhouse museum with furniture, household objects and agricultural tools.

Using these collections, Casa del Marco presents the way of life of the region's rural society up to the middle of the 20th century.

The complex consists of five buildings with residential and agricultural areas. These include a kitchen, living quarters, storage rooms, stables, a barn, a weaving workshop and a carpentry workshop.

Casa del Marco is temporarily closed.

The cultural perspective extends from religious veneration and cultural heritage to rural life and its working spaces. You can read about these focuses individually or place them side by side as different ways of approaching Villarquille; no fixed order is necessary.

When planning a trip with a holiday apartment in Villarquille, the travel dates, room category and cancellation conditions appear as separate details of the respective offer. Which of these details is given greater weight depends on personal priorities; the site's cultural and landscape themes remain independent of this.

The cultural and landscape highlights can be considered independently of one another. Sacred sites and the farmhouse museum represent different approaches to the history of the village; the Ruta Minera complements them with paths, local roads and mining remains. The route offering itself also distinguishes between the descriptive account and digital tracking.

Other places you can include on your journey through this regional area are Villanueva De Oscos, Ron and Gestoso.

Landscape and Paths

The Ruta Minera de San Martín de Oscos follows a succession of paths and local roads through the Oscos landscape, passing several mining remains.

The Ruta Minera de San Martín de Oscos leads to Villarquille and continues there along a land-consolidation track towards Teixeira.

A land-consolidation track begins at the foot of the aforementioned Ermita.

PDF and KML files are available for the Ruta Minera de San Martín de Oscos, allowing the route to be followed by mountain bike or as a BTT tour.

The route description and the available file formats place different emphasis on different aspects: here, the route can be read through the landscape and mining remains; there, the track can be selected for digital tracking. You can choose the format that suits your own planning approach.

Return to the higher-level travel overview: Villanueva De Oscos.