Etymology According to Xosé Lluis García Arias, in his book "Asturian peoples: the reason for their names", the origin of the name of Bowls would come from "Stationes", plural of "Stationem".1 Bowls Village Bowls Image Bowls is formed by two neighborhoods, divided by the local road that connects the town with Villaviciosa, capital of the council: San Roque and San Miguel. The limit of the Historic Complex occupies the area between the coastline, from Punta de la Mesnada to Punta de Tazones and the crest lines of the mountains of La Atalaya and Villar, to the junction point of the Tazones road with the Gijón-Villaviciosa road. Inside it is located the Castro del Picu Catalin. Bowls have a beach on whose pedrero you can see jurassic dinosaur footprints. It also has one of the 18 fishing ports of Asturias, belonging to the 3ª Lastres captaincy, where small boats dock fishing and a fish market dock. The town is situated between two large rocks, and its houses, with one or two floors, are arranged in a staggered manner. Important whaling port in past times, it is assumed that it was in Bowls where, at that time, very young King Carlos I stepped on Spanish land from Flanders for the first time in 1517, a fact that is commemorated every year during the local festivities of San Roque, which are celebrated in mid-August, with a representation of the landing. The port of Tazones currently stands out for its fishing and tourist activity, but, in the past, this fishing village lived from whale hunting. Its port was one of many of the Cantabrian cornice that were dedicated to the capture of cetaceans, converted into a thriving business in the 16th and 17th centuries, although it has been practiced since the XIV, according to Luis Laria, director of the Coordinator for the Study and Protection of Marine Species. However, minimal references are preserved from this part of the history of Bowls. Gonzalo Álvarez Sierra echoed, in 1979, in the work "Villaviciosa, in image", some words of Caveda in which he said that, around 1550, Bowls was "a small flourishing port" with whaling activity. By that century, all the commerce of Villaviciosa and its council can be said to come from Bowls, where many vessels arrived not only from the Kingdom, but also from abroad. In fact, long trips were made to Galicia, Biscay, Andalusia, France, Holland, England, as recorded in the archives of the Villaviciosa Town Hall. The main items that were traded were flax, hemp, wax, oil, pitch, cloths, canvases, etc., love fishing and whale products, which were also fished. In 2016, Tazones and Villaviciosa, in addition to Llastres and Cabo Peñas, in were protagonists of the television spot for the Christmas lottery that year created by the Leo Burnett agency that employed residents of the area as figurants. Tazones is also today, famous for its seafood, tastable in the many establishments of the town: crab, lobster, bugre, andaricas, barnacles, clams, llampares and razors. Situation Bowls is located on the coast of the council of Villaviciosa, at the mouth of the estuary of the same name, about 11 km from the capital of the council. From there, you reach the village by the local VV-5 road. Heritage The neighborhoods of San Miguel and San Roque are declared "Historic Artistic Ensemble" since June 17, 1991. church The parish church of Tazones is located in the San Miguel neighborhood dating back to 1950. The primitive church of this parish located then in the San Roque neighborhood was burned in 1936 during the civil war, the image of the Manolin Child is the oldest of the temple since it is the only thing, next to a crucifix, that is conserved of the first. The rest of the figures were acquired in 1950 for the reopening highlighting among others the images of San Roque, the Virgin of Covadonga, the Sacred Heart, San Antonio and the two angels of the Virgin of the Rosary. House of the Shells La Casa de las Conchas, in the San Roque neighborhood, is a house with a facade completely covered with shells of different shapes, sizes and colors. Dinosaur footprints In the pedrero of the beach, about 120 meters from the explanatory panel located at the entrance of the beach, on the surface of a gray stratum of the Tereñes formation, accessible at low tide, there are several three-sided ichnites of bipedal dinosaurs, some of the which form a trail. 480 meters further in the same direction, in the formation of Vega river origin, another tridactyl dinosaur footprint appears in addition to an immense ichnite that belongs to the footprint of a Sauropod starting from the left side of the road that goes to the lighthouse, on a cliff whose access is conveniently signposted, there is more trace
