Ormas Between Trails and Building Culture

Ormas Between Trails and Building Culture

A clear connection to hiking and historic architectural forms give Ormas two distinct perspectives. The Hermandad de Campoo de Suso trail network includes the PR-S40 route, “Camino a los pies del Liguardi”. The route name already makes Liguardi visible in the title of the trail. If you organise your daily plans by theme, you can treat this trail as a separate focus alongside the local architecture.

Building Culture

One rural accommodation option in Ormas is Posada Ormas. It is the restoration of three houses dating from 1616 that are typical of the Hermandad de Campoo de Suso. You can therefore record the posada in your notes on the village both as accommodation and as part of the local architectural history.

Ormas has a rural architectural ensemble regarded as one of the finest in Campoo. Two notable houses date from 1636 and 1642 and belonged to the Rodríguez García de los Ríos family. The manor houses of Ormas typically have a ground floor and an upper floor separated by a simple cornice. Window surrounds, the keystones of the arches and, in particular, coats of arms often serve as decoration. The architectural details therefore range from the arrangement of the floors to the individual decorative elements.

Culture

The parish church of San Andrés in Ormas dates from the 16th century. The first section of its nave, with its simple portal and roughly worked corbels, also appears to date from the 16th century. At San Andrés, both the church building and the precisely identified features of this first section of the nave are therefore central.

Nature

From Ormas, a steep track runs along the slope of Pico Liguardi to Collado de Rimaceo. From Ormas, a steep track along the slope of Pico Liguardi also leads to the Puertos de Sejos. For your tour planning, you can record Collado de Rimaceo and Puertos de Sejos as two separate destinations; both names give the mountain route a specific direction. The names Collado de Rimaceo and Puertos de Sejos thus mark two different destinations along the described track. Together with the PR-S40, “Camino a los pies del Liguardi”, this places distinct route descriptions around Liguardi side by side.

Part of Monte Bayantún above Ormas is a beech forest. If you organise your notes by landscape features, this forest stands as a separate natural attraction alongside the hiking trail and the architectural sights.

Accommodation

When choosing a holiday apartment in Ormas, compare travel dates, room category and cancellation conditions. Depending on whether your travel dates are flexible or you prefer a particular room category, you can compare the available offers clearly; the cancellation conditions complete this comparison.

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Geographical Location

Access to Ormas is from Espinilla.

For the higher-level travel overview: Cantabria.