We have spent a long time answering the same questions by phone and by email: how much the cable car costs, whether you need to book, which walk to do on the first day, what to do if you wake up to rain. We have been writing the answers down.
These are not texts copied from other websites. They are the things we know from living here, with prices and opening times checked against official sources.
Where to watch the eclipse on 12 August
All of Cantabria lies in the path of totality, but the Sun will be just 8–10 degrees above the horizon. In a mountain valley that changes everything: from many spots in Liébana it simply will not be visible.
How to tell whether yours will work, and what to bring.
Read the guide
Fuente Dé cable car: prices and opening times
Our most asked question. High and low season fares, whether you really need to book, the 30-minute time slots and what happens if there is fog at the top.
Dogs, bikes and a warning about the La Hermida roadworks.
See prices
Walking down from the cable car to Mogrovejo
You ride up in the cabin and walk back down across the Puertos de Áliva. The official Cantur route ends 500 metres from the house.
Buy a one-way ticket and save yourself 13 euros.
See the route
The Bajo los Picos walk, from Mogrovejo
A circular route that leaves Mogrovejo, climbs towards Tanarrio and comes back through Redo. Literally past our front door.
The one we recommend on day one to get a feel for the valley.
See the route
Liébana and the Picos de Europa with a dog
Leads compulsory in the National Park, a carrier and its supplement on the cable car, and which walks work well and which do not.
And where you can eat with them.
See the details
What to do in Potes and Liébana when it rains
It does rain here, and it pays to have a plan B ready. Santo Toribio, the Torre del Infantado, the orujo distillery in Argüébanes.
All less than half an hour from the house.
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