Picos de Europa day trips from the Saja valley
You can see the Picos de Europa from the high ground above the house. Touching them takes a day trip, and it is a very good one.
The classic: Fuente De
A little over an hour's drive through the Hermida gorge brings you to Fuente De, where a cable car climbs 750 metres of rock face in about four minutes. At the top: high mountain scenery that belongs in the Alps, walkable in gentle loops or serious ascents depending on your group.
Build the day
- Coffee in Potes, the stone-bridge capital of the Liebana valley.
- Cable car up; book online in summer and go early.
- An hour's amble on the high plateau, or a proper route for the strong walkers.
- Long Liebana lunch, then home through the gorge.
The honest notes
Take a warm layer whatever the valley weather says, and have a Potes-and-cheese plan B if cloud sits on the tops. Either way the group dines back at the house that night: no bag-packing, no hotel change.
More week-building ideas in our one-base walking plan.