One day

You can’t get to know Oviedo in one day, but you can take the chance to visit some of the most characteristic monuments and sites of our city, where everything, or almost everything, is at hand.

This is a city for walking, with many pedestrian streets in the old quarters and shopping areas. Here are some suggestions. Forget the car. We will accompany you on the walk.

If you have any questions, ask any local you come across, I’m sure they will be happy to help you.

We will also provide you with some anecdotes, unique data and intra-histories so that, as soon as you arrive, you will already feel like an actual carbayón.

Carbayones (trees, cakes…neighbours)

The people of Oviedo are known as “carbayones”, an unofficial name that refers to a large oak tree (“carbayo” in Asturian) that once existed in the lower part of Campo San Francisco Park. The felling of the tree, in 1879, caused an intense political and social debate and was justified by the need to open a new central street in the city that led to the train station, Uría Street. A bronze plaque now marks the site where the tree once stood. Part of the trunk is kept in an urn in the Town Hall.

In addition to referring to the inhabitants of Oviedo, “carbayones” are also the most typical cakes of Oviedo: almond paste in puff pastry bathed with egg yolk cream and sugar.