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The sport in Asturias

Eastern route by El Transcantábrico

Jesús Castañón Rodríguez

From the 25th to the 28th of November,2004, the railway company FEVE went for a singular trip: an active tourism cruise on board an epoch train.

To the East of the Paradise
The train came to Oviedo again to go to a new stage road to the East. It went in search of the sea-mountain-twinning in a coast and narrow flat with balconies viewing the littoral. It went in search of a cut out line with inlets and outlets, capes, bays, estuaries, high cliffs, coves of cosy ports, jesters by means of which the wind and the swell were heard...

Oviedo-LLanes
Now the railway line of Económicos, between Oviedo and Llanes and inaugurated in 1928 was done. A singular section to link Oviedo and Santander which was due to a special agreement between the railways of Económicos and the Bay of Biscay and it created a system of main railway stations, secondary ones and stopping places in the councils of Oviedo, Siero, Nava, Piloña, Parres, Ribadesella and Llanes.

The train "plied" a smoother landscape than in the West, with a new leading role for bridges, pipes and scars.

In the administrative division which comprise a number of municipalities typical due to Cider (made up by the towns of Bimene, Cabranes, Colunga, Nava, Sariego and Villaviciosa), tradition and modernity, history and he contemporary World were hugged.

The traveller had a great number of possibilities: to travel around 27 Pre-romanesque and Romanesque monuments, to enjoy the difference between the rural and marine life and a wide range of agriculture, beekeeping, fruit growing, cattle raising, gardening…To amuse the sight by means of the paradise fruits: cranberries, raspberries, strawberries, strawberries and mainly apples.

The sport train skirted around the waters of the Piloña river to Arriondas, place for pilots where the Javier Villa's speed noises and the notes of the pop feeling for a new identity echoed. This new identity was reflected in the song "Asturias" by Ramón Melendi when he turns the Formula 1 racing driver Fernando Alonso into the King of Wind.

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