Caoru
Our trailThe Caoru trail is a mountain path, perhaps Roman or medieval, which has been used for centuries by shepherds and livestock farmers in Arenas de Cabrales and its surroundings to take their animals to the sheepfolds (high meadows) in spring and summer. The trail runs through the Portudera massif, passing from Arenas through the villages of Tielve and Sotres, all of them in Cabrales, and then heading south out of Asturias.
It is in the massif of Portudera where you can still see the mark of the shepherds who inhabited these mountains, in the form of huts, impressive stables, which are surprising for the amount of work and detail in its construction, which could only be reached by mule trails, sheepfolds that look like gardens fenced with stone, forests of beech, holm oak, oak, hazel, chestnut and walnut that are the product of centuries of careful forestry, creating a land of unique beauty, and perfectly adapted for raising our livestock in freedom, with some of the best pastures offered by the Picos de Europa.
It is in this place, witness of so many shepherd men and women, where my love story for this land begins, and I realize that the best way to honor their legacy is to dedicate myself to the same thing they did, perhaps more than 6,000 years ago, since there are archaeological testimonies of livestock in the area, dating back that far.
It is in this place where I find direct heirs of this tradition, from whom you can still learn, because in few places like here persists the link of this museum still alive.
