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Liebana tradition and culture

The region is nailed in Picos de Europa, his orography like great pit between murallones of limestone has done of her the best defined one of Cantabria. Of difficult access, it is a question of a rural region which capital places in Potes.

Potes he is placed in a strategic place: in the point where both Liébana's rivers come together: the Deva and his tributary the Quiviesa. Vestiges of the Antiquity do not stay in this municipality, though the historians suppose that it have should to be populated in the prehistory, for there being remains in other Liébana's places; that the concanos could be the inhabitants in epoch prerromana; that the Romans should have stretched for this locality the causeway of the "Burejo", which was dividing from Pisoraca and was crossing Piedrasluengas's Port.

Picos de Europa are a mountainous clump located in the north of Spain that belongs to the central part of the Cantabrian mountain chain. Though not very extensive, his nearness to the sea does that it is bountiful in geographical accidents of great interest. At present the National Park of Europa's Beaks they constitute the second national park most visited of Spain, after the National Park of the Teide (Tenerife)

The teleférico saves a difference of 750 meters. The base station is to 1.090 meters of altitude and the base superior to 1.850 meters. The capacity of the cabins is 20 squares. The level of 1.847 reaches in 3 minutes 40 second msnm, which allows a rapid access to the central clump of Picos d eEuropa. The teleférico this one composed of 1 section, with 2 independent sections, with a carrier in each of them, of fucionamiento independent and with speed regulation. The cable has a length of 1.640 meters and the cabins move to 10 meters per second.

The Lignum Crucis (wood of the cross) is a relic of the christianity that refers to the log supposedly used by the Romans to crucify Jesus of Nazareth.

The stew lebaniego is one of Liébana's gastronomic typical plates, in Cantabria (Spain). It is a stew of interior which essential components are the small chick-peas of Pots, the potatoes and the cabbage (nowadays the cabbage for lack of cabbage) to that is added the compango proceeding from the matacíu of the chon (sausage, pudding, bacon, bone of ham), besides veal (cured meat, bone of knee and leg bone) and I refill, that is a made mass of crumb of bread, egg, sausage and parsley.

Of foundation attributed to the family Lick, it was constructed in the 14th century. It belonged to Don Tello, Master of Liébana, brother of the king Enrique II, and son of Alfonso XI. From the 16th century, the tower happened to form a part of the family Santillana after a series of clashes for the possession of the dominion. Finally it would stay in hands of the Dukes of Osuna, who sold it in 1868.

 At present, the Tower of the Infantado is the headquarters of the town hall of the villa.

The Holiday of the Residue carries out every year the second weekend of November in Pots, the capital of Liébana's region, Cantabria (Spain). This festivity, which began in 1991, consists of the degustation of the residue that produces to itself in this region, accompanied of traditional music, traditional markets, and certainly of the incomparable frame of Europa's Beaks. The production of residue lebaniego goes back to the crop of vineyards in the monasteries in the High Middle Ages. Every year prominent figures are rewarded to one o more as " orujeros major ", entrusted of reading the cry and taking part actively in the festival with conferences and especially with the ignition of the alquitaras. In addition, there is granted the " Alquitara of Gold " to the brand that has produced better residue of the year.

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Welcome to Let's Go hiking co.

Welcome to Let's Go hiking co.

 This division of our company  borns to show and to guide in an exclusive and personalized way  all our clients through one of the most beautiful and wonderful places of Spain, the national park of Picos de Europa, entering his landscapes customs, and traditions.

 Our aim is  designing  hiking and cicling  trips for groups of adventurers with an integral management of your vacations.

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