Ribadesella Asturias
Kayaks and angular
Villa surrounded by mountainous reliefs, located at the bottom of the estuary of the Sella.
The water separates in a very wide scar two different urban areas: the old Town and the urbanization of the beach of Santa Marina.
Nearby destinations:
Nearby are the caves of Tito Bustillo and the cavern. Something further away are the Maria, the close and the predose.
Ribadesella is known worldwide for its canoe festival.
This celebration, half sport, half fun, is held every year on the first Saturday in August.
During those dates the city is a hotbed of people.
Hundreds of young people participate in the test.
Between locals and arrivals from other parts to descend the river Sella from nearby Arriondas.
that are animated by so many other visitors.
After the sporting event, the revelry continues in the town's Verbenas and bars.
Gastronomy
But in addition to canoes, other more appetizing species such as trout, salmon and especially the angular are run by the Sella.
That here is taken sautéed with garlic or chilli.
Other fish, these of the sea, arrive at its port, formerly whaler and today commercial.
They are the ones that make dishes as substantial as the roll of bonito, with nice crumbled and seasoned according to the uses of the place.
They are also consumed products that are said of pedral, like ", Winkles or Arcinos.
There is a variety of stew, riosellana, which consists of providing rock products accompanied by lobster or lobster.
There is also no shortage of meat in the local culinary, being common to find the meat ruled, stewed or in roll and stuffed with bacon, egg, peppers and olives.
Monuments of the town
The villa has a charming old town, declared a historic artistic ensemble.
Which mostly belongs to the 17th and 18th centuries.
Remarkable monuments are the church of Santa Maria Magdalena del Puerto.
The noble houses of the pedestrian area, the Watchtower Tower and the Hermitage of Our Lady of the Guide, raised on top of Alto Corbero.
To get to it you have to go the walk at the foot of the estuary, where we discovered the collection of the Cay fountain.
With a bas-relief and a poem in honor of Pepin de Pria, poet Riosellano.
From the viewpoint of the Hermitage is dominated by the fishermen's quarter and the new part, on the other side of the river.
It is the urbanization of Santa Marina, from which towers and modernist and Indiana residences stand out.
Like Villa Rosario or Villa Argentina, which delimit the busy beach of Santa Marina about km long.
In the vicinity of the locality is the cave of Tito Bustillo, the jewel of the Asturian rock art.
Compete with the Santillana del Mar in the richness and chromatic diversity of its figures.
The traces of Tito Bustillo belong to the period Magdalenian, end of the Upper Palaeolithic and its antiquity is of about 13000 years B.C.
The cave is composed of several galleries and passageways that exceed the half kilometre.
The didactic classroom, located near its entrance, gives us a quite complete view of the Asturian prehistory.