Asturias Tourist Guide 2018

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Come home to Paradise

in El L’Entregu/El Entrego explores the historical memory of coal mining and has a mock mine. The Steelworks Museum of Asturias (MUSI) housed in a cooling tower of an old Duro Felguera Plant, in Llangréu/Langreo. The mining complex of Arnao has one peculiarity that distinguishes it from the rest: some of its galleries run below the sea. Gijón/Xixón’s former railway station, Estación del Norte, now houses the Railway Museum of Asturias (MFA), which tells the history of the railway that became the backbone of life in the industrial revolution.

El Gaitero cider factory combines its activities with guided visits of their permanent collection and brewery, ending with a cider tasting session. A lot of other cider-press houses also offer similar activities. The canning industry led to almost a hundred of factories being opened, which provided a traditional source of employment for women. The Permanent Exhibition of the Canning Industry in Candás is located in the old cistern of the Bernardo Alfageme Cannery and Cider Factory. The motorways also pass by examples of the flourishing food-processing industry or other traditional arts. It contains a whole set of equipment that helps you understand the industrial activities and the working conditions of the workers and communities that were formed around about it. The Mining and Industry Museum (MUMI)

More information at: asturiastourism.co.uk/IndustrialTourism

Steelworks Museum of Astirias-MUSI-(Langreo)

Canning Industry

Cider apples

Mining and Industry Museum of Asturias-MUMI-(SMRA)