Cudillero: A Fishing Village Stacked in an Amphitheatre

Cudillero's houses are stacked up the walls of a narrow ravine above the harbour in tiers, painted in different colours, so the whole village looks like a theatre with the port as its stage. The port and the first settlement date to the 13th century, and the earliest document naming the place is a deed of 1285 granting a plot at the port of Cudillero where bread could be sold. The villagers have their own name and their own dialect: pixuetos, from living off fish, as distinct from the farming people of the rest of the council.