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What to see and do in Taramundi

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

1 Villages · 2 Monuments · 2 Curiosities

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What to see and do in Taramundi

Taramundi
Village
Taramundi is a concejo of Asturias bordering the province of Lugo, where eonaviego is spoken, a transitional language between Asturian and Galician. With broken relief, among mountains exceeding 1000 metres in the Ouroso sierra, it is watered by the rivers Ouria, Turía and Cabreira, which join at Mazo Novo before flowing into the Eo; the oceanic climate favours forests of chestnut, oak and birch trees. With 545 inhabitants, this concejo is famous for the folding knives and blades of its ferreiros, with a recognised area of craft interest; in 1984 the first rural tourism lodging in Spain opened at La Rectoral, and at Os Teixois hammers and water mills still turn.
Ethnographic ensemble of Os Teixois
Monument
The ethnographic complex of Os Teixois is a hamlet located 4 kilometres southeast of the town of Taramundi, opened to the public in 1980, with a set of hydraulic devices in very good condition and working order: a trip hammer, a mill, a grinding wheel, a fulling mill, a mazuco and even a small power station, all driven by the water of the Las Mestas stream. Declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) and thoroughly restored since 1989, this 18th-century hamlet lets visitors see the machines running while the site's caretakers offer technical and historical explanations, in a setting of hills, streams and rural paths.
Knives of Taramundi
Curiosity
The municipality's cutlery trade was born in the mid-19th century as an offshoot of the work of the ironworks; its pieces combine steel blades with handles of boxwood, heather or oak, decorated by hand with crossed lines of colour.
Museum of los Molinos de Mazonovo
Monument
The Mill Museum, in Mazonovo (Taramundi), is dedicated to cereal mills, water mills and even hand mills, spread across three buildings and, in part, in the open air along the channel that supplies them with water. It also has a power station that supplies electricity to the whole complex: it was the first to supply Taramundi and the main mill in the area. It brings together nineteen mills, eight hand-operated and six hydraulic among them, plus three designed for children and two special ones, together with reproductions of mills from different periods and cultures. Less than a kilometre from the town, visitors do not just look, since most of the devices are meant to be started up by hand.
Cutlery-making of Taramundi
Curiosity
The ferreiros forge carbon steel blades by hand and fit wooden handles, traditionally of boxwood, decorated with shellac in geometric patterns particular to each workshop; the municipality is a declared Craft Interest Area.