Asturias Tourist Guide 2018

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Come home to Paradise

A mining experience in the Valle de Nalón The Nalón basin offers three ways to discover Asturias’s mining culture and its urban, social and economic importance. The first is by visiting the Mining and Industry Museum in L’Entregu/El Entrego and exploring all of its exhibition space. The second is by following this sign: “Come and discover a valley, village andmine”. This is what the Samuño Valley Mining Ecomuseumproposes to the traveller. Here you can enjoy a two-kilometre journey in train following the route along which coal extracted from the mines was transported, visit the entrance to the old San Luis Pit and explore the surroundings of the town La Nueva. The third alternative, muchmore intense, is to enter the darkness of the mine, the place where the real solidarity among the miners was formed. The company Hunosa offers guided visits of the Sotón Pit. Here you will descend down 556 metres in the old pit cage and explore the eighth, ninth and tenth floor.

Samuño Valley Mining Ecomuseum