Cadavedo to Luarca
Luarca
- Distance
- 15.3 km
- Climb
- 360 m up, 390 m down
- Ground
- 0 to 220 m
- Time
- 4 to 5 hours
- Difficulty
- easy
- 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
Luarca is a small fishing town tucked into a deep natural harbour. The Capilla de la Atalaya (16th-century watchtower chapel) and the town cemetery sit on the clifftop above the harbour — the cemetery holds the grave of Severo Ochoa, the Luarca-born Nobel laureate in physiology (1959). The town is known as 'the white village of the Green Coast' for its whitewashed fishermen's houses climbing up from the harbour. The pilgrim accommodation is good.
What pilgrims often meet here
- Descending into Luarca and seeing the hidden harbour
- The clifftop chapel and cemetery at sunset
- Seafood dinner at the harbourside — Luarca is a working fishing port
- Severo Ochoa's grave — a Nobel laureate in a village cemetery
A hidden harbour, a Nobel laureate buried in his home village. What does home mean to someone who leaves and comes back?
The ground
Short day through rural Asturias to Luarca, a fishing town in a deep natural harbour with a distinctive white-and-black cemetery on the clifftop (the 'white village of the Green Coast').
The light
Sunrise and sunset in Cadavedo 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, Luarca, 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.