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¡NOTICE! This Greenway is undergoing maintenance: it is being repaired with new closures and there is a plan to repair the road soon.
Until maintenance is complete, we ask users to be careful, paying particular attention to railings and firm ground.
Mining has played an important role in the history of the Valles del Oso region, (Proaza, Quirós, Santo Adriano and Teverga).
The mining of its rich deposits needed railway lines to carry away the output of the mines. Then the mining crisis shut down the mines and the railways.
However, the railways have in some way been given a new lease of life thanks to their recovery as a Greenway, the Senda del Oso Greenway (literally the Bear Trail Greenway), which offers us a journey through the essence of Asturias at its most natural and rustically charming.
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 CONDITIONED GREENWAY
A way to access the most outstanding places of natural beauty of Asturias by the best route possible: the old mining railway line between Teverga and Quirós
LOCATION
Between Tuñon (Santo Adriano) and Caranga de Abajo (Proaza) with spur lines to Entrago (Teverga) and to Santa Marina (Quirós) via the Valdemurio reservoir. The line passes through the rural districts (‘concejos’) of Proaza, Santo Adriano, Teverga, Quirós and Oviedo (Asturias).
ASTURIAS
Length: 36 km (22 km + 14 km of the Caranga de Abajo to Santa Marina spur)
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*Mostly wheelchair friendly with very few exceptions (Kerbs at crossroads with no hard shoulder)
Type of surface:
Soil-cement. In Villanueva, urban tarmac roads shared with local motor traffic. Between Valdemurio and Santa Marina, surface asphalt treatment with some tarmac sections in between
Natural setting:
Mountain valleys. Atlantic forests. Valleys of the rivers Trubia, Teverga and Quirós, Valdemurio Gorge and reservoir, Valdecerezales Gorge on the river and Peñas Juntas Gorge on the river Trubia, The protected landscapes of Sierra del Aramo and Pico Caldoveiro; the Ubiñas La Mesa natural park; the natural monuments of Tejo Milenario and Roble de Bermiego; the natural monument of the Las Xanas Gorge; the natural monuments of Puertos de Maravio and Cueva Huerta
Cultural heritage:
Pre-Romanesque churches at La Plaza and Tuñón, and mediaeval palaces and towers. Bermiego: late middle-age rural site, with 32 granaries and bakeries. Bandujo: a perfectly conserved village with a mediaeval feel which has recently been declared a Heritage of Cultural Interest. San Salvador: coal washeries at and a Museum of Prehistory. Arrojo: ‘Sun house’ at Quirós and Romanesque Church of San Pedro. Barzana: Ethnographic Museum of Quirós. Megalithic area of the Alto de La Cobertoria. Santa Marina: mediaeval bridge and the restored coal loader at El Cribu. San Salvador: restored coal washeries at the Xagarín mine. La Fábrica: Ethnographic Park of Quirós
UNESCO Heritage in the surroundings of the Greenway. #Greenways Heritage 
Infraestructure:
Continuous rail bed with a great many tunnels and bridges.
How to get there:
Trubia: FEVE. Oviedo Suburban Railway. TUA (Oviedo Urban Transport Buses) and Autopullmans Llaneza
Proaza and Entrago: Empresa Llaneza bus
Connections:
Oviedo: 15 km from Trubia
More information on Greenways Guide Volume 1 and 3
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