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Luarca is a small town on the Costa Verde.  Its quaint seafront houses overlooking the harbour make it a good place to explore.  There are plenty of nice seafood restaurants serving the local catches.  Luarca is not a mainstream holiday resort but there are plenty of houses and apartments to rent .  In the summer months the town's population is swelled by Spanish holidaymaker's, it is virtually untouched by tourists from outside Spain.  If you are touring through Asturias, Luarca is well worth a visit.

There is an excellent and very helpful tourist office with bilingual staff and a wealth of information, some of it in English. This tourism building is to the rear of the town and close to a hill, on top of which is a small chapel that visitors can walk up to and gain a high level view of the town from.

The harbour though is the high point of this coastal hamlet and it has an enclosed, though far from claustrophobic, air to it. The small fishing boats that are moored up are in neat rows and one side of the marina acts as something of a manmade jetty with a couple of low level maritime buildings and a parking area. You can also walk out on to part of the key and look back towards Luarca over the water, ideal for taking photographs.

Luarca is a pleasure and at night time when the subtle curve of the angular harbour is illuminated by streetlights and the surrounding buildings it is nothing short of stunning. The town also has a number of hotels and plenty of places to have a drink, a snack, or a seafood based dinner.

As you move from one end of the town to the other you come across a road that winds around Luarca’s backdrop of hills and heads off towards the local beach.
Luarca is a truly stunning fishing village on the north western coast of Asturias. It is easily reached from Lugo (Galicia) and has one of the most attractive harbours in all of Spain.

The best way to view Luarca is from the hills above the town, or even (believe it or not) from the picturesque and multi-tiered cemetery on the slopes above from which you can also look out to the open sea.

Luarca's harbour is almost rectangular when viewed from over head and two sides are overlooked by neat terraces of three and four storey buildings. Nearly every harbour facing building in this quaint little town has a white rendered facade and a grey pan tiled roof and this gives Luarca an appearance that, whilst "old world", is still ordered and tidy. Nearly every harbour facing building in this quaint little town has a white rendered facade and a grey pan tiled roof and this gives Luarca an appearance that, whilst "old world", is still ordered and tidy. The best way to view Luarca is from the hills above the town, or even (believe it or not) from the picturesque and multi-tiered cemetery on the slopes above from which you can also look out to the open sea. Luarca is a truly stunning fishing village on the north western coast of Asturias. It is easily reached from Lugo (Galicia) and has one of the most attractive harbours in all of Spain.

Moving away from the port into the heart of the old town, Luarca does not disappoint. It has some narrow and winding streets with the occasional plaza.