They occupy a total area of ​​64,660 hectares with heights exceeding 2,500 meters and their northernmost point hardly 15 kilometres from the sea. The Picos de Europa, the most widely visited national park in Spain after the Teide National Park, are true giants just a step away from the coast. When one considers visiting these high rocky mountains covered with snow that lasts almost into the summer, people usually think of their popular cable car, climbing or mountaineering, but not of enjoying the sand, sun and the crystal clear water of the sea. However, this area of ​​the Bay of Biscay governed by the great peaks offers travellers the chance to explore the coast on foot or by

  Canyoning is an adventure sport done in the canyons or gullies of a river. The first place where the sport was done in Spain was the Escuaín gully, in Aragon, and the first person who did it was the Frenchman Lucien Briet in 1903. In his book of memoirs, this precursor from beyond the Pyrenees describes the beauty of the gully as “a formidable joint (fracture in the rocks) open in the mountains and worthy of serious study by those who have followed the canyons of some rivers”.   This sport, with no more rules than safety above all, consists of descending the head of a river, normally walking with water up to your ankles and finding falls on the w