Lastres

Whale oil paid for the fine houses of Lastres, an Asturian fishing port that prospered from whaling in the 16th and 17th centuries. Steep cobbled lanes and stairways drop to its small harbour, and the village played the fictional San Martín del Sella in the TV series Doctor Mateo. From the San Roque chapel at the top, the view takes in the port, the coast and the Sierra del Sueve.

Highlights

• Santa María de Sábada, the 18th-century parish church standing above the town
• The four-storey Torre del Reloj in the village centre
• Museo del Jurásico de Asturias, with fossils and full-scale dinosaur models
• Playa la Griega, a surfing beach with dinosaur footprints at its east end
• Fresh fish from La Chucha, the village fishmonger, and Asturian cider

Text adapted from Wikipedia (Lastres, Llastres), Wikivoyage (Lastres, Llastres). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.