Thursday 8th May 2025
Today we took a mountain road from Riano to Potes in the opposite direction to that we took in August 2018. In my blog then I used the phrase “wow, wow and wow again” today I wouldn’t remove a wow from that description. It’s difficult to find a complete range of superlatives to describe the journey, we were novices in the motor homing world back then and we have driven some fantastic mountain roads since then, especially in places like Norway, but this road is still magnificent.
At the top of the map are the statistics for the journey, it took 1hr 23 mins to drive 33 miles most of it in third gear. We couldn’t stop to take photos and when we did reach a pull over at the highest point 1609m , we were surrounded by thick clouds and couldn’t see anything.
We are only 400m from the town so it was an easy stroll in this afternoon, it was pretty much as we remembered it from 7 years ago.
The Torre del Infantado is a robust construction from the 15th century and was home to generations of the Dukes of Infantado.
Potes is one of the most attractive towns in Cantabria and is in an area surrounded by spectacular mountains and converging streams. Its streets crossed by numerous bridges feature centuries old buildings and monuments.
There are a number of shops catering for the tourist trade and as you can imagine it is a hot spot for tourist coaches so you would need to visit slightly out of season.
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