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. If Shakespeare had been here, his imagination would never have paid attention to the cliffs of Dover. The village, the meadows, the creek, the high and bare mountains are almost perpendicular or its forested hillsides, with goats jumping from rock to rock and cattle grazing peacefully below combine to form a magnificent whole.