Verdera brings together several distinct travel interests: a Necrópolis listed in Asturias’s cultural heritage inventory, stories about the vanished chapel of San Vicente, named rural paths and the Riega la Canal stream. If you’re looking for a holiday apartment in Verdera, you can shape your stay around local history, path routes or the landscape. For getting there, a published CTA route sequence also lists Verdera as its first stop.

Getting there on the CTA route

A 2025 timetable published for CTA route 040-017 “Verdera–IES Peñamayor” lists Verdera as its first stop. After departing Verdera, the listed stop sequence continues with Cesa and then Cuenya. If you’re considering this route for your plans, check the current services before travelling, as timetables may change.

Heritage and local history passed down through the years

The Necrópolis de San Vicente de Verdera was added to Asturias’s cultural heritage inventory on 23 January 2014 under code IPCA-YA-40-028, and it remains listed there. Another historical trace concerns the former chapel of San Vicente. According to local accounts, it stood in the upper meadows of San Vicenti, near the old royal road from San Román to Verdera and south of El Corralón. The chapel has disappeared; it is credited with contributing to the Christianisation of the area around the parishes of San Andrés de Cuenya in Nava and San Román in Sariego.

The Necrópolis and the former chapel are two distinct subjects associated with San Vicente: the Necrópolis is notable for its entry in the cultural heritage inventory, while the chapel is known for its reported location and the historical role attributed to it. You can therefore explore the archaeological connection and local tradition separately as part of your interest in local history.

The Riega la Canal and rural paths

The Riega la Canal runs through Verdera and much of the neighbouring parish of Cuenya. The stream flows into the Ríu Bustiellu, a tributary of the Piloña. For anyone interested in how the landscape connects, its course leads from Verdera through Cuenya to the Piloña river system.

The rural path El Camín Rial, also known as El Camín de Verdera, runs from Carretera L'Enguilu via La Pumará Riba, and from La Figarona and La Pumará Baxo via El Camblor, climbing up to La Portellona. It passes along the slope near Casa la Mariñana and L'Arquera. This sequence of place names traces the named route. If you’d like to include it in a specific walk today, check the route and its condition beforehand.

A municipal document from April 2023 gives the distance of the “Camino de Salgues a San Román por el Corralón (Verdera)” as 0.8 km. This is a short distance; check the current path conditions before setting off. A route entry published in 2018 describes the mountain bike route “Ruteando por Nava Siero y Sariego pasando por Picu Fariu”: it starts in the village of Naveto de Verdera, and the first climb follows a paved track. When planning a route, different considerations come to the fore: the short distance of the Camino de Salgues, the sequence of path names on El Camín Rial, or the starting point and surface described in the mountain bike entry. Check current conditions before turning a route description into a specific outing.

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