1er Principle
“Every body immersed in a fluid experiences a high that you cannot see”
Gijón/Xixón embraces the sea with the bay of San Lorenzo. From San Pedro to La Lloca, the seafront we call The Wall Thousands of Gijón residents and visitors walk through it daily, all year round. Our relationship with the sea is intense and marks our character.
The San Lorenzo beach has a length of 1 and a half km and is marked by 16 accesses, starting from staircase 0 (“The Cantabrian“), located after the St. Peter’s Church, to the area popularly known as “the Tostaderu“, at the mouth of the Piles River.
But, in addition to San Lorenzo, the best known, in the council we have 8 more beaches, some urban and others more natural.
On the beach you don’t just sunbathe: you walk along the shore, you take the dogs out in winter, you surf, you play soccer and volleyball… or you go for crabs at the “pedreru”.
The Cantabrian
At the zero staircase or “La Cantábrica” the San Lorenzo Wall walk begins. From there you can see the Regatta Club and the climb through the Cimavilla neighborhood towards the Cerro de Santa Catalina, where the Praise of the Horizon is located, the gigantic sculpture of Chillida, and from where you can enjoy a panoramic view of Gijón/Xixón.
The rampina and the morning bath
Groups of people, like the protagonists of the video that you can see on this website representing the First Principle of Gijónomy, meet every morning in “la rampina” or in La Escalerona to bathe together in the sea.
The Staircase
In Gijón/Xixón, the accesses to the beach of San Lorenzo from the promenade (“the Wall”) are numbered. Sometimes they are used as a spatial reference: “at the height of the 12th”, for example. Well, the largest, the one with the clock, the one with the giant thermometer, the most famous… is La Escalerona.
See you at La Escalerona?
party on the beach
Beach soccer matches are organized every weekend. People of all ages get together whenever the tide allows, as you have to play at low tide.
La Lloca
The emigrant’s mother is popularly known as “la lloca’l Rinconín” or “muyerona”. It is a sculpture by Ramón Muriedas Mazorra in tribute to the Asturian emigration.
With a disheveled appearance and a confused expression, our most beloved “lloca” says goodbye to her children who are receding on the horizon.