Lagos de Covadonga
The Vuelta's best-known climb: about 12.5 km at about 7% from the Covadonga sanctuary to the glacial lakes of the Picos de Europa.
- Start: Covadonga
- Length: 12.6 km
- Elevation gain: 900 m
- Average gradient: 7.1%
- Max gradient: 15%
- The Vuelta first finished here in 1983, won by Marino Lejarreta.
- Winners include Robert Millar (1986), Pedro Delgado, Nairo Quintana (2016) and Primož Roglič (2021).
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