By Bernadette Gilbertas (text) and Olivier Grunewald (photos) for
Le Figaro Magazine
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A drop slides from one sheet to another.
The grass is soaked, the scents of earth increased.
Muffled ringing of bells.
Chinese shadow cows imprint themselves on the pearl gray of the air.
A tiny breeze, then a gust of wind tears the opacity of the morning fog.
A bluish hope continues to expand.
A limestone tooth, another peak, a cliff have just appeared.
Here is Torre l'Osu, Las Colladetas, La Morra, Los Campanarios.
The Picos de Europa are revealed.
Grandiose, dizzying, the summits of Asturias and the Cantabrian mountain range bear their name high.
It was given to them by the sailors seeing the very first mountains of the Old Continent stand out on the horizon.
It is a famous barrier that an eventful tectonic history erected in the sky, that of marine sediments deposited in the Carboniferous period, found perched at more than 2,600 meters.
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