Asturias Tourist Guide 2018

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Admire your surroudings #IndustrialTourism

Don’tmiss... ʝ ʝ Mining and Industry

required fuel and the Asturian deposits were too highly sought-after. Coal mining opened the way for all the rest. With mining came the metallurgical and steel industry and power production, fuelled also by the abundance of water. The railway became the main figure of industrialisation. The landscape of the Principality was transformed, driving it towards the future. Asturias’s industrial heritage, protected by the Spanish Cultural Heritage Law, includes three types of assets: isolated elements, such as the Tabaco Factory, located in the centre of Gijón/Xixón; industrial plants, such as the one in Arnao or the Trubia Arms Factory; and whole landscapes revealing a range of

Silhouettes of mining scaffolds dominate the horizon, steammachines rolling over metal tracks, towns born out of industrial paternalism...All a testimony to the richness that flows from underground, from the rivers and seafloor, to howmen and women tried to tame nature. This image is very different from the rural Asturias of the 19th century, whose inhabitants lived off of agriculture and livestock farming and only had a few canning factories and arms factories built in the 18th century. The men and women of Asturias had known about coal for at least two centuries but they had never shown an interest in mining it. But industrialisation

Museum of Asturias - MUMI - (L’Entregu/El Entrego-San

Martín del Rey Aurelio) ʝ ʝ Samuño Valley Mining Ecomuseum (Ciañu/Ciaño- Langreo) ʝ ʝ Sotón Pit (Sotrondio-San Martín del Rey Aurelio) ʝ ʝ Mining town of Bustiello (Mieres) ʝ ʝ Arnao Mine Museum (Arnao-Castrillón) ʝ ʝ Railway Museum of Asturias (Gijón/Xixón)

Sotón Pit (SMRA)

Arnao Mining Complex (Arnao-Castrillón)