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Luarca - for a break on the Norte?

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This article is in today's Guardian. It paints an attractive picture...

Luarca, a summertime secret on Spain’s cooler northern costa

Spanish holidays needn’t mean battling crowded beaches and blistering heat. In this small fishing village, flanked by green hills and some of the nicest beaches in Asturias, the pace of life is slow even in summer
www.theguardian.com
 
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I recently had a week's holiday a little down from the coast, in El Balcon de los Oscos, Asturias.Your link is along familiar territory.
 
Yes I walked along the Norte a long time ago now. Didn't really do it for me somehow, but the scenery and the towns were very nice! And it reminded me of west Cork. With sun!
 
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Luarca is a beautiful place. Many hours spent there watching the otters play in the harbour whilst sipping a cold beer (me not the otters). And you have that amazing graveyard, complete with the last resting place of the chap who discovered DNA. A beautiful part of the world.
 
I also love Luarca. The views, the harbor, the fish market, the cemetery. It is a very special place. If anyone is looking for a splurge place, I’d recommend the Hotel Villa Argentina.

Inicio - Hotel Villa La Argentina

Hotel Villa la Argentina - Luarca, Asturias. Visita nuestro Hotel con Encanto.
www.villalaargentina.com

It’s located in one of those “palacios de los indianos” - the homes built by people who emigrated and made it rich in the Americas and then came back to build their home. Asturias has an abundance of these places. And Luarca has seven!


Casas de indianos - Turismo Luarca

Luarca posee un gran abanico de recursos culturales: desde monumentos hasta la historia viva de un premio Nobel, Severo Ochoa.
www.turismoluarca.com

p.s. The fish market is totally automated - no shouting, just people clicking and watching as the prices fluctuate on the board. I had no idea what was going on but it was great fun to watch!
 
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I remember this town and it is really lovely. I think Luarca was were a found a little family owned pizza place that was called New York Pizza or something like that. Of course being from New York I had to go in and check out what the slices looked like. They looked like they could be pretty good so I ate there. Maybe not up to the best pizza in the Bronx but pretty damn good! I am a massive snob about pizza as so many real New Yorkers are.
 
Walking Norte in 2015 slept in Luarca, happy days. Last year walked from OVD, Asturias airport and was very happy to sleep there again,
 
I loved Luarca when I stopped there on the Norte in 2014. Raucous Sunday lunch with the high poured cider and fish soup followed by barnacles followed by tuna. Yum.

As a slightly obsessive fan of Spain's quirkier monomaniacal museums, I was very disappointed that the Museo del Calamar Gigante was closed at the time (flooded, appropriately), but apparently it's now reopened. So I suppose I'll have to walk that way again.
 
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I love Luarca and walked on the Norte there in May 2023. I had great weather, good food and walked up on the hill, over, and down the other side to a rather remote and unique lovely beach to the east of town.
 
Yes, the pizza there was pretty good. I will be going back next month!
 
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peregrina2000 said:
Ok, let us in on the secret. I can’t find it with google.
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Remember L. I said I think and it was a tiny little place. .
My memory ain’t what it used to be.
I can remember the names of the brothers who owned the pizza place when I went to P..S 86 but I couldn’t tell you the name of an albergue I slept in 2 nights earlier!
 
Don't know about the pizza, but the Barometro on the quay was one of the better seafood restaurants I have encountered. Just behind the town church of Santa Eulalia, there was once a very nice jazz bar, but I fear that it did not survive the pandemic.

On the way in, one can pass by the Moorish cemetery in Barcia, built for the civil war dead of Franco's Moorish Legion, as they could not be buried in the same ground as the Nationalist Christian soldiers.
 
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peregrina2000 said:
Ok, let us in on the secret. I can’t find it with google.
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It is on the waterfront, I think the north east corner of the harbor tucked in near La Catalana Pub. It does not show up on Apple Maps either. One of the few places to get a meal at 1800.
 
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