Stage 2. Grado – Salas (21.9 km)

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Today the slopes will not leave us no respite. We will start, from Grado, with a long climb to reach San Juan de Villapañanda and we will continue ascending to the Alto del Fresno to finish with a demanding and steep descent to the Narcea Valley, which takes us to Salas.

This stage is part of the The Primitive Way. Would you like to walk it with your accommodation already booked? These organised trips include it: Primitive Way from Oviedo to Lugo and Camino Primitivo from Oviedo to Santiago de Compostela.

You leave Grado with a steady climb up to the Alto del Fresno, whose chapel is worth the short detour. You go down into Cornellana, where you must stop to see its monasterio de San Salvador, and enjoy the day's most beautiful stretch through a lovely forest. Between dovecotes, churches and tree-lined paths you reach Salas, a welcoming village with every service. Watch out after rain: a few stretches get slippery.