Things to Do in Avilés

Would you like to get to know Avilés as if someone from the inside told you about it?

This tour is for you if you're looking for something more than the typical.
For two hours we will walk through the historic center, discovering corners with history, surprising secrets and details that many Avilés residents don't even know.
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🕵️‍♀️ Did you know there's an animal hiding right in the center of town?
🔔 And what about the town hall bells holding a rebellious message?
🌀 Each stop is a story, an anecdote, or a curiosity that will make you see the city through different eyes.

👣 It's a participatory, engaging, and dynamic tour, designed for you to enjoy, ask questions, and laugh while you discover the best of Avilés.

🙋‍♀️ I'm Yaiza, a local guide, born here, and eager to show you what the guidebooks don't tell you.

Ideal for groups of friends, young couples, or travelers eager to discover the authentic.

Are you up for it? Avilés will never seem the same again.

🎯 I'm Yaiza, a passionate local guide, and I love showing you the different, the rare, and what others won't show you.

🎁 I'm waiting for you with lots of surprises!

Avilés preserves a Historic Center that surprises those who visit it. Its ancient origins date back to the Middle Ages, when it received the jurisdiction that elevated the population to the category of town, it was walled and experienced its moment of maximum splendor.

On this historical-artistic tour we will tour the center of Avilés, with its typical arcades, along with the Sabugo neighborhood, the only neighborhood outside the city walls that existed in the Middle Ages in the town.

We will get to know not only medieval Avilés , but also its periods of baroque and modernist splendor.

The guided tour will begin on Calle del Sol , to enter the streets that were walled centuries ago. We will see the importance that its port had for Avilés and we will be able to see emblematic buildings such as the Valdecarzana Palace , the Church of the Franciscan Fathers and the Camposagrado Palace.

We will continue to Sabugo , the old fishing neighborhood. Sabugo was for centuries separated from Avilés, walled by a large marsh, where the Muelle park is located today. There we will delve into the history of the only suburb that existed outside the walled area in the Middle Ages, its streets and its two churches.

The tour will end near the Plaza del Ayuntamiento , on Galiana Street , where we will talk about the baroque expansion and some of the buildings that marked Avilés in the 17th century: the City Hall, the Ferrera Palace and the Julián Orbón music conservatory.

Take note: this tour departs with a minimum of 2 people.

With this free tour through the historic center of the city of Avilés you will discover all the monuments that this land of discoverers, marine and medieval, hides. The Free Tour will begin with the sculpture of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, a military man who played a fundamental role in North America in the 17th century. From here, we begin to learn more about the history and curiosities of this city and we will see monuments such as the Niemeyer Center or the Sabugo Church located in the old fishing district. Near this neighborhood we will visit the popularly known as the Cathedral of Avilés: the church of Santo Tomás. We continue with the Avilés estuary where we will tell you the importance that this area had during the Second Industrial Revolution as well as being able to enjoy its incredible views. We will continue to Plaza de España where we can contemplate the Town Hall and the Ferrera Palace, one of the oldest Baroque buildings in Asturias. To finish we will visit the Balsera Palace, the parish of San Nicolás de Bari, the Camposagrado palace or the church of the Franciscan Fathers. The tour will end at the meeting point in the Parque del Muelle.

Aviles. millennial city. A city where original streets and houses are still preserved where painters, Great Discoverers of the New World or poets of the Great Court of Madrid del Habsburg walked.

I will tell you the popular names and their meanings, including curious anecdotes and stories such as the la'Chichilana cafe or the Bombé promenades. and the curious story of an "influencer" seal in the villa
We will discover palaces with ghosts or churches that "exchanged the saints" or that are "upside down ". A street that turns into a river once a year... a thousand anecdotes and stories that make it the city with the most columns in Spain (almost 4 km of arcades).

We will go from medieval streets and some buildings of that time to large modernist palaces built as residences for the industrialists who arrived from "the Americas" in the 19th century, passing through Baroque palaces and even the jewel of 21st century architecture.


During the 2 and a half hours that we will be together you will discover that Avilés is full of charming corners.

Taking the music kiosk in the Parque del Muelle as a starting point, we propose a quiet walk through the historic center of the Sabugo neighborhood, the origin of the city, and through the emblematic streets of Galiana or Rivero with their houses with the arcades that have made so singular or to contemplate the nineteenth-century Avilés and the beginning of the 20th century with its modernist architecture.

In short, everything that has given it its current character.

Think no more,

WE ARE WAITING!