Hiking
Ruta Teixo - Os Teixois PR-102.1
The itinerary begins in Teixo, where after leaving the vehicle and passing the last houses we start an easy walk along the road that joins this town with Santa Marina, leaving it to the right along a wide dirt track that leads us after a slight descent to the Arroyo das Mestas.
The route continues along a narrow path in the shade of a leafy chestnut forest until we reach the beautiful village of Santa Marina, which still conserves the strong appearance of the villages of western Asturias, characterised by a solid and austere architecture of slate masonry buildings without plaster, few openings and a slate slab roof. Once you have left the village, path and walker climb together to the top of the hill towards the hamlet of Almallos, from where you descend along a path surrounded by chestnut trees until you reach the road from Taramundi to Veigas, then continue along a narrow path that descends towards Teixois, a place that is one of the most interesting ethnographic sites in the Principality of Asturias. The hiker can visit here a series of hydraulic devices: mill, mallet, fulling mill, whetstone and a rudimentary power station that powered the first light bulbs that came to Taramundi. Passing Teixois we ascend parallel to the stream of As Mestas, passing through the village of the same name, finding abundant riverside woodland that will clear as we ascend and approach the starting point again.
