Navia de Suarna

Navia de Suarna lies among the mountains of the Ancares, beside the river that gives it its name. Its castle originated in the eleventh century and later passed to the Osorio family and the counts of Altamira. Destroyed during the great Irmandiño revolt of the fifteenth century, it was subsequently restored for habitation. A medieval bridge crosses the Navia below: its present pointed arch dates from a rebuilding in the same century, replacing an earlier Romanesque crossing.