Lastur

Continuing inland, we will enter the Lastur Valley, a paradisiacal place worth visiting to discover it slowly, on foot and without haste.

At the end of the valley is the tiny rural nucleus of San Nicolás de Lastur, which has a shrine of the same name, the Plazaola mills (former ironworks), a fronton, just four and the hostel, where we can visit the karst interpretative space and get to know through information panels, photographs and illustrations, the history and traditions of this valley, its link with stone and its geological characteristics, as well as the ways of life and customs of its inhabitants. A valley where the farmhouse, the caves, the water, the limestone and the bulls are the main protagonists.

The Lastur valley appears already mentioned in a document of 1335, in which King Alfonso XI, at the request from the foundries of the valley, authorised trees to be cut in the nearby communal mountains. As time goes by, the foundries of the valley became mills and witnesses to this are the Plazaola mills, which can be visited in a perfect state of conservation and operation.

From the same square, next to the shrine begins the path PR-46 or the Karst Route. A route of great scenic and geological value through the heart of  the Geopark.