To this day, Avilés preserves one of the most striking historic centers in northern Spain. Not only the age of its buildings stands out, but also the authenticity of its streets, many of them arcaded, like cloisters that shape the heart of the city, and which turn this town into the largest porticoed space in all of Asturias.
The epicenter of Avilés is in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento and from there its most characteristic streets start as a kind of eternal crossroads in a city with a cosmopolitan vocation that has always been there.
Street names such as Galiana, Rivero, La Ferrería, Bances Candamo, La Cámara, La Fruta, San Bernardo or La Estación will be burned into your traveling memory, when you tour historic Avilés where you will see such emblematic places as the Valdecarzana palace, the Romanesque church of the Franciscan Fathers, the Old Church of Sabugo and that of San Nicolás de Bari (both from the 13th century), the Market Square, the Ferrera Palace, the Fuente de los Caños de San Francisco, the Ferrera Park or the Plaza del Carbayedo, among many others…
