At the heart of the Cantabrian mountains, in the "Principado de Asturias", is located SOMIEDO, classified as National Nature Reserve in 1988, and Biosphere Nature Reserve in 2000.
	SOMIEDO boasts a very remarkable cultural and ethnographic heritage as well as a stunning scenery. Over centuries "Vaqueiros" and "Xaldos" (folk from Somiedo who take care of the cattle and sheep respectively) have safeguarded the natural environment. Thanks to their ancestral wisdom we can nowadays enjoy this paradise where brown bears and capercailles live together in mythical beech tree forests, crystal-clear lakes and overwhelming silence only broken from time to time by drumming of the "vaqueiras", the twitter of birds at dawn or the silvery tinkle of the brooks.