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What to see and do in Luyego

What to see and do in Luyego (La Cabrera, León): 12 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 5 Monuments · 1 Nature · 1 Activities · 1 Curiosities · 1 Historical milestones · 2 Food and drink

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What to see and do in Luyego

Luyego
Village
Luyego is a municipality of about 535 inhabitants made up of six villages — the four of the Maragato comarca and the two of La Valduerna — in the province of León. It stretches along the valley of the Duerna, with meadows and poplars alongside irrigated land, while in the higher, drier areas rye is grown and, to the south, under the sierra del Teleno, the great pine forest of Tabuyo unfolds. The municipality preserves old Roman gold workings and examples of Maragato architecture, as well as the church of San Esteban, and venerates the Virgen de los Remedios. Its recent history is marked by emigration, first to Cuba and Argentina and later, from the 1960s onward, to European countries such as the Netherlands, Switzerland, France and Germany.
Roman epigraphic ensemble of Luyego and Priaranza
Historical milestone
From the middle of the second century onwards, votive altars to Jupiter Optimus Maximus are concentrated at Luyego and Priaranza de la Valduerna, dedicated by soldiers of the legio VII Gemina and of the cohorts I Gallica and I Celtiberorum, linked to gold.
Stele of the legionary eagle of San Martino
Monument
At the spot known as San Martino, beside Priaranza de la Valduerna, a stele decorated with a legionary eagle and weapons came to light, a singular piece of the exceptional Roman military epigraphic group gathered in this valley.
Mycological Interpretation Centre of Tabuyo del Monte
Monument
A facility devoted to publicising the mushroom wealth of the Tabuyo pine woods, with an interpretive exhibition, courses and guided routes that teach good picking practice and the relationship between fungus and tree.
Saffron milk-cap mushrooms of the Tabuyo pine forests
Food and drink
Lactarius deliciosus is the emblematic mushroom of Tabuyo del Monte, to the point that in a fenced plot stumps were mycorrhized to study its cultivation; in autumn it draws hundreds of pickers through the pine wood.
Honey of Tabuyo del Monte
Food and drink
Tabuyo del Monte, a village in the municipality of Luyego in the León region of La Cabrera, sits beside an extensive pine forest and a low scrubland of heather that its hives make use of to produce the honey which, together with mushrooms, identifies the village today. The beekeeping tradition coexists with a cured-meat gastronomy that includes morcilla de miel (honey blood sausage), and the village promotes both products in tastings that add to its mycological heritage.
Hermitage of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios de Luyego
Monument
A mid-seventeenth-century building that preserves a Rococo altarpiece; it is the outstanding piece of Luyego de Somoza's religious heritage, together with the hermitage of La Cruz, only partly preserved.
Church of San Salvador de Quintanilla de Somoza
Monument
It presides over the square of Quintanilla de Somoza and holds a main altarpiece carved by the sculptor Gregorio Español at the beginning of the seventeenth century, a work of unexpected quality in a village of Maragato architecture.
Hermitage of Santa Ana de Quintanilla de Somoza
Monument
It completes the monumental ensemble of Quintanilla de Somoza, considered one of the most beautiful villages of the Maragatería for the quality of its stone buildings with large doorways, galleries and traditional courtyards.
Clock House of Quintanilla de Somoza
Curiosity
The Casa del Reloj, the former council building or town hall of Quintanilla de Somoza, a village in the municipality of Luyego (León) belonging to the Maragatería region, marked the communal time of the village with its bell and remains today the landmark of the hamlet, next to the church of San Salvador. Quintanilla, considered one of the prettiest villages in the area for the quality of its stone buildings in Maragato architecture, also preserves the hermitage of Santa Ana and the ruins of San Salvador, as well as cobblestone paving and several fountains that originally served as drinking troughs for livestock. The church of San Salvador stands out for its south porch and tall bell tower, and houses inside a high altarpiece by Gregorio Español, from the early 17th century.
Waterfall of Agua Alta de Priaranza de la Valduerna
Nature
A waterfall hidden in the surroundings of Priaranza de la Valduerna, in a valley where the river Duerna keeps a fine riverside wood and where the houses were built with mud and cobbles from the riverbed itself.
Trail of puente a puente de Priaranza de la Valduerna
Activity
A local footpath linking the bridges over the river Duerna as it passes Priaranza de la Valduerna, crossing the meadowland and the riverside grove with the outliers of Monte Teleno always in the background.