Soto de Luiña to Cadavedo
Regalina
- Distance
- 18.5 km
- Climb
- 460 m up, 425 m down
- Ground
- 0 to 280 m
- Time
- 5 to 6 hours
- Difficulty
- moderate
- Underfoot
- coastal, forest, dirt, paved
Where this day sits on the Camino del Norte
Above, the highest and lowest ground of each of its 34 stages. Below, the word each day is given.
From open-pilgrimages: each stage's highest and lowest ground and its interior theme.
The day
The Ermita de la Regalina is one of the most photogenic chapels in Asturias — a small whitewashed hermitage on a grassy cliff above the sea, with hórreos (traditional Asturian wooden granaries on stone stilts) scattered around it. On August 29 there is a pilgrimage (romería) to the chapel with traditional Asturian music, dancing, and cider. On any other day it is quiet. Cadavedo itself is a small parish with a pilgrim albergue.
What pilgrims often meet here
- First sight of the Regalina chapel on its cliff
- Hórreos scattered across the meadow around the chapel
- Sitting on the cliff with the Atlantic below
- The pilgrim dinner at the Cadavedo albergue — often communal
A small chapel on a cliff is a place people keep building. What does this kind of building stand for?
The ground
Follows the cliff coast through Novellana and Ballota, with dramatic sea views. Cadavedo (Cadavéu in Asturian) is a small parish famous for its 17th-century Regalina chapel (Ermita de la Regalina) on a cliff above the sea.
The light
Sunrise and sunset in Soto de Luiña depend on the day you walk.
Walk it with Pilgrim
In Pilgrim's Honor mode you can walk this stage as it is drawn here, and save its maps for days with no signal. The morning opens with this day's word, Regalina, and its story. When you arrive, it asks the question above, and you can answer out loud. Your walk stays on your phone.
With Pilgrim on your phone, this opens the stage, ready to begin. Without it, you'll see the stage and where to get the app.