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Stage 17 · Camino del Norte
Ribadesella → Sebrayo
Before you set off
Nowhere to eat
Between Sebrayo and Sebrayo.
Colunga, Priesca and a hamlet
A stage of 31 kilometres with 600 metres of ascent and 580 of descent, difficult, with the coast at the start and the Asturian countryside afterwards. You leave Ribadesella over the bridge across the Sella and climb through San Esteban de Leces, with the estuary below, before dropping to Vega and its long beach. It continues through Berbes and La Isla, with coves and cliffs, on paved tracks that go up and down without a break.
Colunga comes after two thirds of the way and is the last real stop: a town with bars, shops and a pharmacy, where you should buy everything for the evening and the night. From there the route leaves the sea and climbs through Pernús and La Llera to Priesca, with its pre-Romanesque church of San Salvador, from the tenth century, on a rise among meadows and apple orchards.
What is left is an easy descent to Sebrayo, a hamlet of a few houses with the pilgrim hostel and nothing else: no shop and no bar you can rely on. It is the end of the stage because the next sizeable town, Villaviciosa, is too far for the same day.
Tips
Get your departure stamp in Ribadesella, stamps along the way in Vega or La Isla and in Colunga, and your arrival stamp at the hostel in Sebrayo.
The cliff path of the first half has no shade; in hot weather leave at first light.
In Colunga fill your bottle and your pack: from there to Sebrayo there is nothing.
Priesca stands high up and the church is usually closed; the view and the cobbled path are worth the climb anyway.
There is no shop and no certain supper in Sebrayo: buy everything for the evening and for breakfast in Colunga.
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The weather
16°C
Cloudy
- Feels like
- 16 °C
- Wind
- 8 km/h
- Daylight
- 08:31 – 19:40
- Today ⛅ 21° 16°
- Wed ⛅ 22° 16° 3 %
- Thu ⛅ 21° 17° 5 %
- Fri 🌦️ 20° 17° 21 %
- Sat 🌧️ 17° 14° 48 %
- Sun 🌦️ 16° 11° 39 %
- Mon 🌦️ 15° 9° 26 %
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What's there today
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Tips from people who walked it
The things that do not expire: where the fountain actually is, which bar opens at six, where not to go in the rain.
None here yet. If you have just walked this stage, you know something tomorrow’s pilgrim does not.
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Say where you are I am walking the Camino del Norte, on the stage from Ribadesella to Sebrayo.
- Farmacia Lorenzo Giralda Javier Pharmacy km 0,1 +34 985 86 01 69
- Farmacia Rosa María García Casals Pharmacy km 0,1 +34 985 86 02 01
- Farmacia La Playa Pharmacy km 0,6 +34 985 860 958
- Daniel Rodriguez Alonso Pharmacy km 20,4
- Jesus Rodriguez Alonso Pharmacy km 20,5
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What to see on this stage 13
- Iglesia Santa María Magdalena Church km 0,1
- Ermita de San Pedro Church km 3,9
- Iglesia de San Esteban de Leces Church km 4,8
- Ermita de la Magdalena Church km 6,9
- Iglesia Parroquia de Santa Marina Church km 9,4
- Capilla de Nuestra Señora de Loreto Church km 19,9
- Iglesia de San Cristóbal Church km 20,3
- Capilla de Santa Ana Church km 20,5
- San Pedro de Sales Church km 21,8
- San Pedro de Pernús Church km 25,3
- San Antolín de la Llera Church km 27,2
- Iglesia de San Salvador Church km 28,6
- Iglesia románica de Santa María de Sebrayu Church km 30,7