Lastres
Llastres
Member of Los Pueblos más Bonitos de España
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Whale oil paid for the fine houses of Lastres, an Asturian fishing port that prospered from whaling in the 16th and 17th centuries. Steep cobbled lanes and stairways drop to its small harbour, and the village played the fictional San Martín del Sella in the TV series Doctor Mateo. From the San Roque chapel at the top, the view takes in the port, the coast and the Sierra del Sueve.
Highlights
- Santa María de Sábada, the 18th-century parish church standing above the town
- The four-storey Torre del Reloj in the village centre
- Museo del Jurásico de Asturias, with fossils and full-scale dinosaur models
- Playa la Griega, a surfing beach with dinosaur footprints at its east end
- Fresh fish from La Chucha, the village fishmonger, and Asturian cider
Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.
Population: 835
Things to see
Travel guide (Wikivoyage)
Llastres is a village in Asturias on the north coast of Spain. Its population is in decline, dipping below 700 in 2024, and its heyday was in the 16th / 17th century hunting whales for their oil. It has a charming old centre sloping steeply to the harbour. When the TV soap Doc Martin was re-made in Spanish in 2008 as Doctor Mateo, Llastres was the location, fictionalised as San Martín del Sella.