Vega de Pas

Along the lonely, winding, and narrow road that runs through the scenic Cantabrian Cordillera, there is a magnificent landscape of colossal mountains, dizzying chasms, and ghostly mist that so often envelopes these high places. This is the entrance to the idyllic Pas Valley.

Fed by the Pas, Miera, and Pisueña Rivers, this Cantabrian region is a wonderful natural gift born of the rough green mountains. It's a small world of endless meadows and solitary huts inhabited only by shepherds, cattle herders, and nomadic villages that have managed to hold on to their ancestral roots and customs.

The mountains and valleys around the Pas, Miera, and Pisueña rivers are most famous for their cute mountain homes. The local customs (based mainly around the cattle trade), beautiful scenery, world-class desserts (quesadas, sobaos, and pasiegos), make the Valle de Pas a real undiscovered gem and one of the most beautiful regions of Spain and Europe as a whole.

It's a symphony of greenery and peace which broadens the mind. It's full of stunningly beautiful villages, ancient gorges, and deep valleys.

When I first saw these beautiful valleys, it was love at first sight. The Pas Valley is located on the border of Cantabria and Burgos, in the headwaters of the Pas River which has lent its name to the region.

The lives of the people, in general, revolve around livestock and this can be easily seen in the cattle grazing throughout the valley.

If you want to try some really tasty sweets, try the sobaos, pasiegos, and quesadas...they're fantastic!