{"id":52378,"date":"2023-07-14T23:10:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T21:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=52378"},"modified":"2023-07-15T23:41:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T21:41:17","slug":"the-hidden-and-magical-beauty-of-asturias-in-a-ruined-resort-and-an-abandoned-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/07\/14\/the-hidden-and-magical-beauty-of-asturias-in-a-ruined-resort-and-an-abandoned-town\/","title":{"rendered":"The hidden and magical beauty of Asturias in a ruined resort and an abandoned town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La cornisa norte de Espa\u00f1a es una zona muy monta\u00f1osa, con lugares espectaculares que parecen estar esperando ser hallado.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/26\/a-walk-through-a-spectacular-mountain-village-in-asturias-with-its-last-neighbors\/\">A walk through a spectacular mountain village in Asturias with its last neighbors<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/01\/04\/un-pueblo-fantasma-situado-en-medio-de-la-nada-en-un-profundo-valle-de-asturias\/\">Un pueblo fantasma situado en medio de la nada en un profundo valle de Asturias<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>I am from Galicia, the most beautiful region in Spain (modestly speaking, hehe), although I admit that I have great appreciation for neighboring <strong>Asturias, which has landscapes that seem to be taken from a fairy tale.<\/strong> A few years ago days, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@hilux_aventura\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hilux Aventura<\/a> posted a video showing two of those magical places from his Asturian land.<\/p>\n<p>One of them is <strong>an old spa in ruins opened in 1888<\/strong>. From the data provided by the video, I have managed to identify that it is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtpa.es\/noticias-asturias:El-Balneario-de-Fontoria-estuvo-en-funcionamiento-hasta-mediados-del-siglo-XX_111625555702.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fontoria Spa<\/a>, in Cangas del Narcea, which was abandoned in the second half of the 20th century. The second part of the video shows <strong>an abandoned village with impressive stone houses<\/strong>, some of them in ruins, and the typical h\u00f3rreos and paneras of Asturias, where food was stored to keep it safe from vermin and humidity (the video is in Spanish, you can activate the automatic subtitles in English in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"EXPLORO un PUEBLO ABANDONADO y pruebo las aguas de este lugar M\u00c1GICO!\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pdPmJYT1I-M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see some screenshots of this video here. <strong>Here we see the resort, which was on the banks of the Arganza river.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53044515350_6052d948e6_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>An image of the abandoned town<\/strong>, with the typical and solid stone houses of Asturian mountain architecture.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53043542532_3cd18b95ac_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here we have a panera<\/strong>, as the h\u00f3rreos with the largest capacity are known in Asturias, rectangular in shape and usually decorated with typical motifs of that land.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53044304929_dfb4d6a202_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another panera, seen from below.<\/strong> This one is in worse shape.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53043542522_4d0dfd2df5_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La cornisa norte de Espa\u00f1a es una zona muy monta\u00f1osa, con lugares espectaculares que parecen estar esperando ser hallado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19535,16877],"tags":[19708,1954,19705,19706,11462],"class_list":["post-52378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploring-portada-eng","category-ruins","tag-arganza-river","tag-asturias","tag-balneario-de-fontoria","tag-cangas-del-narcea","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}