Pilgrims on the road and friends along the way send me changes every day, and they go out the same day. The Camino del Norte app carries all of it offline, and it's still being built — new features arrive routinely.
Get the appA bar and restaurant sit about 1 kilometer from the dam on the way back up. The dam itself is an imposing structure of raw concrete, built in a narrow gorge.
The hydroelectric dam was completed in the early 1950s, one of Franco's massive infrastructure projects. The abandoned concrete structures on the north side are leftovers from its construction -- most of the materials, particularly the concrete, had to be produced on site in this remote mountain valley. Building it required flooding villages and displacing communities, a story repeated at reservoirs across Spain during the dictatorship.
What goes down must go up, in this case it is about 300m back up to Grandas de Salime. It is mostly, but not entirely, along the road. Along the way is a scenic overlook (about 2km from the dam). Shortly after the most severe turn in the road (a 180 degree bend) the camino turns left to follow a trail uphill.
Esta entidad ha sido beneficiaria de una ayuda del Programa de incentivos a la movilidad eficiente y sostenible (MOVES III), gestionado por la Xunta de Galicia a través del Instituto Enerxético de Galicia (INEGA) en el marco del Real Decreto 266/2021, y cofinanciada por la Unión Europea — NextGenerationEU, dentro del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia.
