Sentidos - Entre Babia y la Luna

One of the most beautiful areas that make up the province of Leon is the region of Babia , located right on the border with the Principality of Asturias .

It highlights high peaks que imposed a superior altitude to 2,000 meters like Peña URBINA, los located around 2,414. Las son lands mainly limestone , and find its limit in the mountains of the Cantabrian Mountains . On the one hand, a climb these peaks involves looking into beautiful landscapes, cubiertos the del winter snows or filled with vegetation en warmer seasons. On the other, it is believed that these mountains enclose a whole world of underground caves of great value.

Among its valleys, shaped by rivers like the moon , whose route favored, likewise, creating a majestic reservoir, are some glacial valleys.

His green meadows are the culprits that the main economic engine of this region is the cattle ranch, mostly vaccine. Babia has promoted over the years an important pastoral and transhumant tradition , being a land for which they advance each year large herds, mostly merino sheep , whose destination is in the ports the region, and also of Spanish-Breton horses.

Amid all this nature, algunos beautiful villages que enjoy the beauty and possibilities que the environment offers are located not only in terms of livestock, but also in the tourism, that has been making an important gap as economic sector in recent years. Thus, in the area is increasingly important rural tourism, offers pleasant establishments in un incomparable environment , where there are also multiple leisure options, between ski slopes, as that of Leitariegos, and different activities of hiking and adventures . One of these towns, the most inhabited in the area, is Villafeliz de Babia, where we are.