Pola de Somiedo

Pola de Somiedo is one of fifteen parishes in Somiedo, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain with category village,It is situated at an elevation of 700 m above sea level. It is 19 km2 in size, with a population of 242. The postal code is 33840. It has a total population of 242 inhabitants in 114 homes. It is the capital city of the council. It celebrates the feast of the Rosary. His temple parish is dedicated to St. Michael .

In 1786 Somiedo Pola was visited by the English writer and researcher Joseph Townsend . In his book Journey through Spain in the time of Charles III, the writer narrates the following:Surrounded by about eighty acres of wet meadows, enclosed in limestone rocks of extraordinary height and settled on a small eminence is La Pola de Somiedo, a village of twenty houses.