Llanes is capital of the council of the same name and it is in the Eastern end of the Principality of Asturias. This villa of marine tradition, is declared as municipality of tourist excellence from 1995 and has among other enchantments, a nourished group of historical buildings, that have been worth him to their urban helmet the denomination of historical-artistic set. In the center of Llanes are exponents of diverse architectonic invoices, the medieval walls along with the Tower (present Office of Tourism), the gothic basilica, and the diverse palaces and palacetes that from medieoevo is crossing all the styles to arriving at the Indiana architecture. The marine surroundings in which Llanes develops to newspaper, can be admired throughout the strolls which they cross his coast, like the stroll of San Pedro or the Stroll of San Antón, that communicates with the Coastal Footpath. He is also interesting to give a stroll by the port, and to know the work Ibarrola, the well-known "Buckets of the memory" that the Basque artist created to decorate it.
Many are the next beaches of the Council of Llanes and all. More than thirty beaches, of which several, have obtained to the blue flag (some they conserve this symbol from 1997) and a total of eight has been awarded with the symbol of tourist excellence. The council of Llanes limits with other seven Asturian councils. By its proximity, they become inexcusable visit for the traveller who crosses this zone of the Cantabrian cornice.
