King Felipe VI, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, the President of the Principality of Asturias, Adrián Barbón and the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, boarded a High Speed ​​train at the station after one in the afternoon. from Chamartín de Madrid with destination first to León and finally to Oviedo. This is the inaugural trip of the Pajares variant, the AVE that finally connects Castilla y León and Asturias. A pharaonic work of almost 50 kilometers in which 80 percent are tunnels and which has taken 20 years to build.