Asturias Tourist Guide 2018

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Come home to Paradise

Railway Museum (Gijón)

Mining town of Bustiello (Mieres)

Grandas de Salime Hydroelectric Power Station

Old cranes at the mouth of the Nalón River (San Esteban de Pravia–Muros de Nalón)

different activities, such as in the Nalón and Caudal basins and, more specifically, the mining landscape of Turón. These buildings and industrial structures dot the horizon of Asturias. Taking a trip along the motorways of the Principality you will see the outlines of the scaffolds that lowered the cages down into the pits, the unique architecture of the mining neighbourhoods, factories, old gas tanks and lofty chimneys. Be surprised by the business centre of Valnalón, the mining town of Bustiello or the scaffolds and pitheads of Mosquitera, Candín or San Fernando. Hidden inside the Salime Hydroelectric Power Station, the largest dam in Asturias, are wall paintings and low relief sculptures by architects and artists, as well as father and son Joaquín Vaquero Palacios and Joaquín Vaquero Turcios.