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• "El Canto del Gallo" is located in the highest area of Ranedo de Curueño, close to one of the three fountains of this town. The house is a building of the 19th century, where every traditional element of the popular mountain architecture has been conserved. There are 6 double rooms with bathroom, heating, a spacious lounge with fireplace, courtyard with barbecue and vegetable garden from where we get all the vegetables we eat in the house. Every room is situated in the former straw loft which has been restored in order to have a lounge with a small kitchen.
• Characteristics:
  • Inside: board games, dining room, fireplace, firewood, library, living- room, rooms with bathroom, television.
  • Languages: Spanish. ingles, francais
  • Outside: barbecue, garden, garden furnitures, terrace, vegetable garden.
  • Services: breakfast available, documentation about the area, ecological food, local products sale, offering dinners, pets allowed.
  • Situation: access by road, access indications, inside the village, mountain.
• If you feel like walking through the countryside, visiting cultural routes around León, spending a peaceful weekend, enjoying the ski season in San Isidro or tasting the gastronomy of León...
• Activities:
  Ranedo de Curueñon is a small town in the mountain of León which is located in Flight by balloon in the Picos de Europa area!!!! Together with the company "Globos Alisios S.L.", we arrange flights by balloon flying over the "Cordillera Cantábrica" (Cantabrian mountains) during the weekend.
  The price per person is 25.000 pesetas.
• Visit to "Cueva de Valporquero" (caves)
  It is opened to the public since 1.966 when the County Council of León decided to open it, although the local inhabitants have known it for several centuries. The origin of the "Cueva de Valporquero" dates from one million years approximately, in the Low Pleistocene, geological period of the Quaternary era.
  - Roman road that crosses "Hoces de Valdeteja" (gorge): this is a low difficulty route; 8 Roman and medieval bridges have to be crossed
  - Cola de Ángel (angel's tail) Waterfall (4 kilometres)
  - Artistic Historical City Centre of "La Vecilla de Curueño" (4 kilometres)
  - Valdepielago Fishing Preserve (1 kilometre)
  - Mampodre National Game Reserve (15 kilometres)
  - Valporquero Caves (25 kilometres) - Picos de Europa Regional Park (20
  kilometres)
  - Hoces de Vegacervera (protected open space) (15 kilometres)
  - Porma Reservoir (17 kilometres)
  - San Isidro Ski Resort (45 kilometres)
  - León City (43 kilometres)

how to get there:

Address: C/ Basilio Sierra, 16 - 24847 Ranedo de Curueño.
From León, the road "N-621" is the most advisable route; and the provincial road number 1 (P-1) towards Boñar.
Before getting to Boñar, there is a detour towards "La Vecilla" (C-626), and before getting to "La Vecilla", there is another one to the right towards Ranedo.

From Asturias, through the mountain pass of Pajares or the motorway up to "La Robla", and from this point on road "C-626" towards "La Vecilla".

From Palencia, Valladolid, Salamanca or Madrid on the A road "N-601".
In Puente Villarente, take the Provincial road 1 to León From that point, go through Boñar or through "La Vecilla" going up the river Curueño.

Airport in Valladolid and Leon.

For local map click here.