The La Canal Iboya spring brings Iboya’s rural heritage to life: the spring has a livestock drinking trough and a washing place, and is located in a wooded area near a reed bed. Iboya is also served by the CTA 025-006 Romadonga–Esc. El Valle (CRA Cabo Peñas) bus route. If you plan to use this route, check the timetable before travelling.
Rural heritage and regional tradition
Iboya is also one of the places in Laviana de Gozón parish where notable traditional buildings can be found. In Laviana de Gozón parish, hórreos and paneras (traditional Asturian granaries) served as schools during wartime; one was even used as a priest’s home.
Food traditions in Laviana parish include artisanal cider-making and traditional foods such as “les marañueles.” In Gozón, the Concurso Enramado de Fuentes draws on the Asturian tradition of decorating springs for the San Xuan festival. The competition aims to help preserve ethnographic heritage; its rules are updated annually.
Ruta Parades: art along the route
The Ruta Parades runs through Laviana parish and links ten former bus stops, now restored as artistic installations. This walking and cycling route can be travelled on foot, by bicycle, motorbike, car or camper van. While hĂłrreos and paneras reflect their former uses, the Ruta Parades puts the transformed bus stops at the centre as art installations.
Estuary and coastal landscape
The Pantalán de San Balandrán is a floating wooden walkway built in 2001 across the water of the RĂa de AvilĂ©s; a ramp connects it to the shore. The Faro de San Juan stands at Punta del Castillo, on the eastern side of the entrance to the estuary. At sunset, it offers views of Espartal beach and the town of Salinas. Playa de XagĂł presents a different coastal landscape: the beach is surrounded by an extensive dune ecosystem of ecological and botanical value.
Nature and culture by the water
The Charca de Zeluán y Ensenada de Llodero Natural Monument comprises a small pond and a bay on the right bank of the RĂa de AvilĂ©s, near its mouth. Cabo Peñas was designated a protected landscape in 1995 and is also classified as a Site of Community Importance (LIC) and a Special Protection Area for Birds (ZEPA). Laviana de GozĂłn parish is also home to the Observatorio Punta La Llera, a distinctive facility for observing nature.
The region’s port history and visual arts are also among its points of interest: Espacio Portus in San Juan belongs to the Port Authority of Avilés and is an interpretation centre dedicated to the history of the port, presented through heritage interpretation. The Church of Santa Leocadia in Laviana houses seven murals by local artist Carlos Suárez Fernández. Former uses of historic buildings, public art, port history and nature observation therefore stand alongside one another as distinct areas of interest.
Discover more destinations: Zancornio.
Return to the main travel overview: Cabo Peñas.
