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What to see and do in Grandas de Salime

What to see and do in Grandas de Salime (Eo-Navia, Asturias): 5 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 2 Nature · 1 Historical milestones

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What to see and do in Grandas de Salime

Grandas de Salime
Village
Grandas de Salime is an inland municipality of the Western District of Asturias, close to the border with Lugo, whose capital is the town of Grandas. It has around 767 inhabitants and forms the last Asturian stage of the Camino Primitivo before crossing into Galicia through the Puerto del Acebo pass. The Salime reservoir, built on the river Navia and inaugurated in 1954, is one of the municipality's hallmarks, although its filling flooded the area's best flood plains. The territory is crossed by the Sierra del Acebo and preserves protected areas in the Sierras of Carondio and Valledor, covered with oak and chestnut. The Museo Etnográfico, housed in a nineteenth-century rectory, gathers the now-lost trades of this rural municipality.
Ethnographic Museum of Grandas de Salime
Monument
The Ethnographic Museum of Grandas de Salime, whose official name is Museo Etnográfico de Grandas de Salime «Pepe El Ferreiro», was born in 1984 from the collection gathered by José María Naveiras, who directed it until 2010. It is owned by the Sociedad Pública de Gestión y Promoción Turística y Cultural del Principado de Asturias, and its mission is to gather, preserve, research and disseminate the tangible and intangible ethnographic heritage of the western Asturias comarca. Since 1989 it has occupied the former rectory house and other traditional buildings of the village, with more than 3,000 square metres of exhibition space.
Reservoir of Salime
Nature
The Salime reservoir is a hydraulic structure located in western Asturias, on the course of the Navia river, at the confluence of the concejos of Pesoz, Allande and Grandas de Salime. Inaugurated in 1954, it is the third reservoir built on the Navia river, after those of Arbón and Doiras. Its gravity dam reaches 128 metres in height, and the impounded waters cover 685 hectares split between Asturias and the Lugo municipality of Negueira de Muñiz; the tail of the reservoir extends some thirty-six kilometres upstream. The construction flooded entire hamlets of western Asturias. Its use is chiefly hydroelectric, although recreational and leisure activities are also organised in the surrounding area.
Hillfort of Chao Samartín
Nature
A fortified precinct founded at the end of the Bronze Age (9th-8th centuries BC) around a ditch, a palisade and a sacred enclosure. In the Iron Age it doubled its defences and developed metalworking workshops for gold, silver and bronze. With the arrival of Rome it went through a period of peace and prosperity, giving up its defences because of the nearby gold mines, until an earthquake destroyed it around the 2nd century AD. A necropolis was later established on its ruins, between the 9th and 10th centuries, which kept the site's funerary use until the end of the Middle Ages. Excavations, begun in 1990, have not yet exhausted the site; the museum opened in 2007 beside the ruins displays more than three hundred and fifty pieces.
Inauguration of the Salime Reservoir
Historical milestone
The Salime reservoir, on the course of the Navia river, is the third built on this river after those of Arbón and Doiras. Its gravity dam, 128 metres high, was built between 1948 and 1953 to a design by the engineer Enrique Becerril and the architect Joaquín Vaquero Palacios, and lies at the confluence of the concejos of Pesoz, Allande and Grandas de Salime; the AS-14 road runs across it. The waters flooded 685 hectares, five churches and eight bridges, covering land in these three concejos as well as in Ibias, in Asturias, and in Negueira de Muñiz, in Lugo, Galicia. With a capacity of 265.60 hm³, its use is mainly hydroelectric, although recreational and leisure activities are also organized around it.