Geography and high mountain nature

Forest, pasture and rock territory

Geography and high mountain nature

Forest, pasture and rock territory

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No need Valdeón of monuments beyond the Peaks of Europe

“The light is reflected in the limestone stone that illuminates the leafy balcony”. The music, in sound and sweet stillness, is given by the proud race that comes from among any rock that can no longer hold its longing to flow.» This memory, indelible, can be an example of what remains in the memory of those who contemplate Valdeón, either from the established viewpoints or in the discovered on their own initiative when exploring any of its steep slopes; and that provide unrepeatable views.

GEOGRAPHY AND NATURE

The Valley of Valdeón

Surrounded by high battlements and with only two entrance gates, through the ports of Panderruedas and Pandetrave, which constitute the narrow access to the valley to which the snow likes to close the pass for part of the year; Valdeón concentrates its inhabitants in small villages grouped around Posada de Valdeón, except in the case of Santa Marina de Valdeón and Cain that appear distanced as singular outposts of observation.

In this natural fortress, where the rocks resemble towers -and never better used the term because this is what they are called in León to distinguish them from the “peaks” of Asturias and the “peñas” Canopies-, the 2,642m high Torre del Llambrión in the Massif Central of Picos de Europa are drawn as the tallest tower.

Passing through the ports

When the entrances of the port of Panderruedas and Pandetrave announce their altitude, 1.450m and 1.562m respectively, the immaculate scene of the similar grandiose amphitheater that is the Valley of Valdeón begins to be glimpsed.

When crossing the ports a swarm of curves heads in sharp slope towards the bottom of the valley, but nothing but the fog can cloud the pleasant sensation of discovering something new, in every revolt, always unpublished and perennially captivating.

It is not a landscape of anonymous mountains because they all have their own name, nor in the valley are peoples numbed by the surrounding grandeur settled, but authentic emporiums of divinized humanity in people attached to a land that extends from the valley upwards, up to.

The Valley of Valdeón

Surrounded by high battlements and with only two entrance gates, through the ports of Panderruedas and Pandetrave, which constitute the narrow access to the valley to which the snow likes to close the pass for part of the year; Valdeón concentrates its inhabitants in small villages grouped around Posada de Valdeón, except in the case of Santa Marina de Valdeón and Cain that appear distanced as singular outposts of observation.

In this natural fortress, where the rocks resemble towers -and never better used the term because this is what they are called in León to distinguish them from the “peaks” of Asturias and the “peñas” Canopies-, the 2,642m high Torre del Llambrión in the Massif Central of Picos de Europa are drawn as the tallest tower.

Passing through the ports

When the entrances of the port of Panderruedas and Pandetrave announce their altitude, 1.450m and 1.562m respectively, the immaculate scene of the similar grandiose amphitheater that is the Valley of Valdeón begins to be glimpsed.

When crossing the ports a swarm of curves heads in sharp slope towards the bottom of the valley, but nothing but the fog can cloud the pleasant sensation of discovering something new, in every revolt, always unpublished and perennially captivating.

It is not a landscape of anonymous mountains because they all have their own name, nor in the valley are peoples numbed by the surrounding grandeur settled, but authentic emporiums of divinized humanity in people attached to a land that extends from the valley upwards, up to.