Wedged between the north Spanish coast and the Cordillera Cantabrica’s often snow-dusted peaks, the capital of beautifully green Asturias is a lively, elegant city with a colourfully painted old town, a thriving food-and-drink scene and a collection of entirely unique pre-Romanesque monuments.
Though often overlooked by foreign visitors, Oviedo is popular with savvy Spanish travellers who drop by to wander around the medieval centre, taste some of Asturias’s 40-odd cheeses and glug local cider poured traditional-style from up high.
