4/18, Saturday, arrived at Oviedo ~2:30pm.
Booked Alojamiento Oviedo 1 at Booking.com. The location is fabulous.
Took this photo from my tiny French balcony, the building at the end is the cathedral.
The 2nd photo is the hotel. Camino sign says 323Km. My particular route is 310Km.
It's siesta time, nothing is open until 5pm, except for the cathedral, where I got my first official stamp for my camino (dated tomorrow).
Walked around. A beautiful old town. Compact, cobble stones, stately buildings.
Many cute plazas, one of which is converted to a market place.
The city hall is very large, facing this large plaza.
Many churches and monestories.
Even though it's siesta time, still lively. Plenty tourists who doesn't understand siesta like me.
Behind the cathedral is where the 2 museums that I visited. Both are free.
A few were already waiting for the door to be opened when I arrived at the archeology museum, in the former monastery of San Vicente, completely modernized interior.
Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias is what I like the most.
It occupies 3 historical buildings: Palacio de Velarde, Casa Oviedo-Portal, and Casa Solís-Carbajal.
Many painters whom I have never heard of, and now an enthusiastic fan of, like
Joaquin Sorolla (my favorite. This museum has a lot of his paintings),
Juan Martinez Abades,
Ventura Álvarez Sala,
Jose Robles Martinez
Ignacio Pinazo.
A series of small satiric prints by Goya, a series by El Greco titled El Apostolado.
I also like the large scale painting by the Norwegian/German painter Carl Frithjof Smith.
After dinner, I walked a bit around town again.
The cathedral looks very nice in the lights.
It'll be a long day tomorrow (close to 40km), but I don't need to get up early, because I want to visit 2 Roman monesteries in the outskirt of Oviedo before my camino, and they don't open until 10am.
