Birthplace of Alejandro Casona in Besullo Curiosity · Cangas del Narcea, Narcea, Asturias Image of Cangas del Narcea, not of the place itself. The playwright Alejandro Rodríguez Álvarez was born on 23 March 1903 in Besullo, where his parents worked as schoolteachers; from that mansion he took the pen name Casona with which he signed his theatre. The village has an interpretation centre about him. Photo: Etienfr (CC BY-SA 3.0) What to see and do in Cangas del Narcea