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Plans with children in the Cider Region

2021-07-26T16:24:32.548Z


The Asturian Comarca de la Sidra proposes fun plans for children, such as educational agrotourism or a race on the footprints of dinosaurs


That tireless children 's

desire to seek and search constantly, the region of Sidra, located in the central-western Asturias, is much more than a piece of coastline green dense and the highest concentration of apple orchards and

cider presses

(cider wine) of the Principality.

In fact, it is a territory that gives the smallest great and round experiences.

From tree to basket

Finca El Malaín, San Justo, Villaviciosa

This agrotourism approach, which has just completed 25 years of experience, could not be more original. A married couple of farmers, Pablo and Marta, open their farm of red berries of the forest to whoever wants to harvest them, taste them at the same moment and pay them later by weight. Throughout three hectares in the open air, families and onlookers collect with cardboard containers both blueberries - the kings of the plantation - as well as raspberries, currants - red and black -, blackberries and hawthorn grapes, all with great antioxidant (and sedative) properties. when picking them up with your hands).

The blueberry and raspberry ice creams are other great claims, as well as the jams from this natural supermarket in which the absence of collateral marketing is appreciated —such as a cider house, souvenir shop, etc.— and being able to know the therapeutic qualities of each. fruit.

It opens from June 15 to September 15 and admission is free.

enlarge photo Visitors caressing the donkey 'Estrella' at the Los Caserinos eco-farm, near Villaviciosa (Asturias).

A very familiar dairy

Los Caserinos, Maoxu, Villaviciosa

This organic farm offers an enjoyable tour for the whole family focused on artisan cheese making. Not in vain, Los Caserinos is the result of four generations of the Amandi surname. Through the glass you can see the milking and cheese production, to which is added a museum of ancient tools and the hut of native breeds. Cows, calves, goats,

Asturcelta gochu

(pig), the burrita

Estrella

... In the

llagar, which is

more than 250 years old, they also explain how cider is made.

At the time of tasting, rice pudding (very addictive) and yogurt become relevant, as well as the novelty for 2021: the new blue cheese, softer than the original from Cabrales.

The six guided tours offered each day are free (by reservation), as is the tasting of four types of cheese and rice pudding.

Sleeping afloat

Trampalones, El Puntal, Villaviciosa

Few experiences delight kids who spend the night on a 7.90 meter long boat, fully equipped (television included) and permanently docked in the port of El Puntal (the price is 60 euros per night for a maximum of five people).

The friendly hotelier Carlos Rojo also rents family canoes that he adjusts his captain's cap to pilot daily rides along the Villaviciosa estuary (minimum two people).

To quote El Puntal without tasting the fish at El Moreno restaurant (+34 984 10 04 01) is to skip a key chapter.

Here they seduce young palates by presenting the succulent fried

pixin

(monkfish) as if

they were

nuggets

.

Nearby is the picturesque beach of Bonhome and, beyond that, the eucalyptus forest and El Puntal cove: 100 meters of fine sand that, when high tide rises, acts as a swimming pool.

enlarge photo Exterior of the Jurassic Museum of Asturias (MUJA), in Colunga.

Dinosaur Coast

Jurassic Museum of Asturias (MUJA), Colunga

The lesson that the evolution of the life of the dinosaurs supposes does not mean that the children enjoy their moment eureka! in this museum of natural sciences. It all starts with guided visits around the 16 replicas exhibited outside, among which the nests of triceratops and tyrannosaurus rex stand out. Apart from the central scenes inside the museum —the one with the long-necked camera, for example—, the didactic workshops - with limited capacity and about three euros per person - arouse amazement in which races are disputed stepping on footprints in order to understand the way the dinos walked. In

Playing with Dinosaurs

we enter the Mesozoic through traditional Asturian games, and in

Piensa y Corre

Fossils equipped with a map and compass are unearthed.

Also, Thursday is the day of the gymkhana.

There is no child who then does not remain speechless on the nearby beach of La Griega at the footprints of sauropod dinosaurs, among the largest in the world.

Once at the museum ticket office, you can download the Muja Audioguía self-visit application, guided by the paleontologist Laura Icnica and the stegosaurus Debi.

Price of the children's version: 2 euros.

By horse!

Ecomuséu Ca l'Asturcón, Argüero, Villaviciosa

This will be one of the few opportunities to caress the Asturian representative of the Celtic ponies, the Asturcón horse, blackened, of short height, great strength and achieved adaptation to the natural environment. For two decades, Severino García has taught them in his village house and has traveled with clients for two kilometers to caress a herd of Asturcones raised in freedom. Severino maintains various native breeds in danger of extinction, such as xaldas sheep, Bermeya goats, Asturcelta

gochu

and pita pinta chickens.

Particular mention should be made of the workshops, either the pottery workshop to model the recently seen animals —such as

Fleki

, the house donkey—, or the sheep wool one.

Visits to the farm with an Asturcón horse ride and workshop, 20 euros per person;

two hours long.

The iconic drink

Asturias Cider Museum, Nava

The cycle of natural cider is a mysterious fact for the little ones.

In order to unravel the fetish drink of the Principality, the Asturias Cider Museum opens its doors, in which a hive of apple tree pollinating bees welcomes visitors.

These then go to the simulator, where the process of washing,

maying

(chopping), pressing and bottling

is reproduced

.

The little ones lack eyes in front of the cyclopean chestnut wood press.

In the environment simulation area there is a winch with a counter attached to the wall, in the traditional Asturian style.

There is the element that gives its name to the winch itself, which is nothing more than a cider store: the wall corkscrew.

But it still remains to approach that kind of springboard in which the rudiments of pouring are taught, yes, with water;

the monitors recommend completing the course in the shower at home.

The visits are guided, up to a maximum group of 20 people.

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Source: elparis

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