Arriving to Boca de Huérgano town - Picos de Europa National Park, Leon side 🇪🇦

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Having been born in a coastal town like Alicante city, I begin to get tired in summer of that suffocating heat and the crowds of people on the Costa Blanca coast, so since a few years ago I decided to organize some travels to spend part of the summer in the north of Spain, famous for its great forests, good food and cooler temperatures.

Driving to Leon from Alicante.

On this occasion I decided to visit, for the first time, the great Picos de Europa National Park (also a Biosphere Reserve) which, with its more than 67,127 hectares, occupies land in three Spanish provinces: Asturias, Cantabria and Leon.

Detailed map (hiking trails, rivers, etc.) of the Leonese Picos de Europa and Boca de Huergano village location (red marker).

And the place where I decided to stay was in Crescente, an inn located in the very quiet little village (440 inhabitants) of Boca de Huergano, in a strategic place between the borders of the three provinces of the National Park.

Some YouTube Shorts from when I arrived to the village, quiet and rainy:

Even so, this village is the capital of the Tierra de la Reina region, being the administrative nucleus of eight adjoining villages, being the entire area located at the foot of various mountain ranges and mountains, which make the region one of the most beautiful and greenest of the north of Spain.

Among the elements to highlight in this town where I stayed are a church with a Romanesque façade, a dilapidated tower from the old palace of the lords of the town, a hermitage and a 16th-century bridge, in a very good state of conservation.

YouTube Short of the 16th-century bridge:

Esla river and a house, from the bridge (1).

Esla river and a house, from the bridge (2).

Esla river and a house, from the bridge (3).

From my window when I woke up at the inn (YouTube Short):

Having breakfast after waking up:

Toast with artisan village bread, artisan butter, homemade plum jam and freshly squeezed orange juice.

Very close to this town we also find the Riaño reservoir, which flooded part of the town's farmland and which today is also a bird watching area (great crested grebe, cormorant, gray heron, yellow-legged gull, vultures, Golden eagle and Bonelli's eagle are seen around here).

Riaño reservoir (1).

Riaño reservoir (2).

Walking through the Riaño reservoir until the water cuts the way (YouTube Short):

Photographs taken with my Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G camera.

YouTube shorts recorded with my Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G camera

Sources on which I relied to give some accurate info about Picos de Europa National Park, Tierra de la Reina region and Boca de Huergano village: (1), (2), (3), (4)