The Parque de la Prehistoria de Teverga is a rock-art museum in San Salvador de Alesga, about 7 km from Entrago, with general admission at 6.08 € and a visit of roughly an hour and a half. Its centrepiece is the Cueva de Cuevas, where three sets of European Palaeolithic art are reproduced at full scale. And there’s one detail almost nobody mentions: the enclosures with bison, Przewalski’s horses and aurochs are free to visit.
We’ve spent more than 20 years renting bikes seven kilometres down the road, so this guide sticks to the practical: what you see, what it costs, how long it takes and how to fit it around a day on the bike. Prices and hours are updated each season, so always confirm on the park’s official website before you set off.
What you see: the Gallery and the Cueva de Cuevas
The museum opened in March 2007 across 25,000 m². The three buildings, designed by Dani Freixes, are buried into the hillside: from the road you only see the entrances. It’s worth walking round the outside before you go in.
Inside there are two ticketed spaces:
The Cueva de Cuevas is the core of the visit. It reproduces, at full scale, three sets of European Palaeolithic art:
- The Galería de los Caballos from Tito Bustillo (Ribadesella, Asturias).
- Panel 4 of the Black Room from Niaux (Ariège, France).
- The Camarín from La Peña de Candamo (Asturias).
You go in with a guide and only on specific time slots, so check the timetable carefully when buying and turn up fifteen minutes early.
The Gallery is the exhibition hall: facsimiles, audiovisuals and objects explaining the techniques, pigments and chronology of rock art. Reproductions here include Altamira, Covalanas, Lascaux, Chauvet, Covaciella and Llonín, among others. It’s the most educational part and the one that works best with children who can already read.
If you want a similar indoor plan further north, the other option in the valley is the Bear House in Proaza, half an hour away by car.
The animal enclosures are free
This is the detail nobody highlights and the one we get asked about every week in the shop: you don’t need a ticket to see the animals. The visitor centre, the café, the playground and the enclosures are all free to enter.
The enclosures are home to:
| Species | Detail |
|---|---|
| European bison | Around 4,000 remain worldwide. |
| Przewalski’s horses | A pair. The only horse never domesticated; around 1,500 survive. |
| Heck aurochs | Three of them, since 2016. The original aurochs, ancestor of all cattle, died out in the 17th century; these are a 1930s recreation. |
| Red and fallow deer | In open enclosures. |
For a family that has already ridden in the morning and doesn’t fancy another long visit, half an hour at the enclosures is a perfect plan and costs nothing.
Prices and opening hours
Prices:
- General admission: 6.08 €
- Children 4 to 11: 3.62 €
- Under 4: free
- Groups of 20 or more: 3.62 € per person
Opening hours:
- July and August: daily, 10:30 to 19:00.
- Rest of the year: Wednesday to Friday, 10:00 to 14:30; weekends and public holidays, 10:30 to 18:00. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays.
- Closed on 24 and 31 December.
Two warnings that save disappointment. First: the Cueva de Cuevas slots have a cap and sell out in August, so buy online in advance. Second: when picking a time, check that the slot states it includes the guided visit to the cave; otherwise you only get the Gallery.
How long the visit takes
- Cueva de Cuevas with a guide: about 45 minutes.
- Gallery: 30-45 minutes, depending on how much you read.
- Usual total: 1 h 30.
Add the enclosures and a coffee and you’re at a good two hours. With small children who drift off, an hour and a quarter covers the ticketed part. In season there are also occasional 60-minute guided activities about Palaeolithic fauna.
How to combine it with the Bear Trail
The museum is ten minutes by car from the start of the Bear Trail in Entrago, so it slots into a normal day without rushing:
One-day plan. You pick the bike up in Entrago at 09:30 and ride the 18 km down to Buyera, where we collect you with the van. You finish around 12:00-12:30, have lunch in Teverga and give the afternoon to the park. That’s the order we recommend: bike early, before the heat builds, museum afterwards, under cover.
Weekend plan. Saturday on the bike at a relaxed pace, stopping at the canyons and the highlights of the trail; Sunday morning at the park before heading home.
Family plan. This is the combination that works best: the trail is flat, paved and traffic-free, and the museum really lands from about age six upwards. If you’re coming with little ones, the Bear Trail with kids lists the children’s gear we rent: bikes from 16” upwards, baby seats, trailers and trail-a-bikes.
To ride that same day you only need to book the bike in advance; we charge nothing upfront.
Getting there from Entrago
The park is in San Salvador de Alesga, at kilometre 33 of the AS-228, 5.8 km from La Plaza and about 7 km from our shop in Entrago: ten minutes by car. From Oviedo it’s around 40 minutes. It has its own car park.
No bus line drops you at the door, so the practical approach is to come by car, park in Entrago, do the ride and drive over afterwards. If the wider area interests you beyond the museum, it’s all in our guide to Teverga.
Our advice
“If you’re coming in August, buy the ticket online the day before”. It’s the mistake we hear about most: arriving at four in the afternoon to find every cave slot taken. The Gallery usually has room, the cave doesn’t.
A note on temperature: it’s cool inside, so bring long sleeves even if it’s thirty degrees outside. And that’s exactly why the museum is your best card for a hot afternoon, just as the tunnels are for the morning, as we explain in the guide to riding the trail in the heat.
One last thing: don’t try to fit the park and the Cueva Huerta into the same day. They’re different visits, both with time slots, and you’ll end up rushing both. Better one per day.
