Cudillero climbs up the slope in tiers of coloured houses that seem glued to the cliff. You walk down steep streets to the harbour, where you eat freshly landed fish with the sea right in front of you.
The amphitheatre shape is what makes it unique: there is no other village on the Asturian coast where the houses rise like this, wrapped around the harbour. It is worth going up to one of the viewpoints to look at it from above, and then sitting on the terrace to watch the boats come in.
Before or after, you can walk up to the lighthouse or to the chapel of El Humilladero, a small Gothic jewel on the edge of the village.
A little history
A fishing village documented since the Middle Ages, for centuries Cudillero lived turned away from the fields and towards the sea: the upper quarter farmed, the lower fished. The «pixuetos» — the people of Cudillero — kept their own way of speaking and their seafaring customs, and at the end of the nineteenth century the indiano houses and the Selgas Palace, known as the «Asturian Versailles», arrived on the outskirts.
- From the house
- 50 min by car
- Duration
- 3 hr
Getting there
Without a car
A regional bus from Oviedo or Gijón stops at the edge of the village; walk down on foot.
By car
Parking at the top, before entering the old quarter.
Before you go
- The harbour car park charges from 1 June to 15 October and over Easter week; the rest of the year it is free. There are few spaces and they fill early.
- The steep streets are real: comfortable shoes and no rush.
- To eat fish at the harbour, better midweek or outside peak August.
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