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Arms Industry Museum - Eibar
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Elgoibar machine-tool museum - Elgoibar
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Ferreria Mirandaola - Legazpi
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Ruta de las Ferrerías y Museo del Hierro Vasco - Legazpi
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Chillida Lantoki, Taller de Ricardo Mediavilla y Fabrika - Legazpi
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Zerain Cultural Landscape
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Mutiloa Mining Reserve - Mutiloa
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Viaduct - Ormaiztegi
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Igartza Monumental Complex - Beasain
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Basque Railway Museum - Azpeitia
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Agorregi forge and mills - Aia
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Mill of Fanderia - Errenteria
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Arditurri Coal Mine - Ergoien
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The Irugurutzeta mining reserve - Irun
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Chillida Leku - Hernani
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La Ruta Obrera - Legazpi
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Museum devoted to the preservation and display of the industrial heritage of a town traditionally linked to the arms industry. The Arms Industry Museum, open in 2007, is located in Eibar, a townwith a long industrial...
Arms Industry Museum - Eibar
Eibar, the factory town
Our Museum is a replica of a manufacturing workshop, gathering the most representative models of machine-tools manufactured by our pioneers during the mid-nineteenth century, and a traditional blacksmith's workshop with all its typical equipment thar we could find in these facilities that once were...
Elgoibar machine-tool museum - Elgoibar
From the bloomeries up to the machine-tools
Es una visita que no te puedes perder, La Ferrería de Mirandaola, es una de las ferrerías más famosa y en ella se puede ver un espectáculo en vivo único en el País Vasco: Los ferrones vestidos como en el siglo XVI ponen en marcha la maquinaria y el agua mueve gigantescos fuelles y el martillo...
Ferreria Mirandaola - Legazpi
El corazón del Valle del Hierro
La Ruta de las ferrerías, es una agradable paseo junto al río Urola (río de ferrerías en euskera), donde se pueden ver, ferrerías, molinos, caseríos en actividad, casas torre, entre otros. En el parque de Mirandaola, donde comienza el itinerario se encuentra el Museo del Hierro Vasco y la...
Ruta de las Ferrerías y Museo del Hierro Vasco - Legazpi
Naturaleza, agua y hierro
En el conjunto de Papelera Legazpi, es una antigua fábrica reconvertida en espacio cultural, y en él se encuentra Chillida Lantoki, donde se muestran entre otros, los talleres de forja y de papel del artista Eduardo Chillida. El Taller de Ricardo Mediavilla, es un espacio vivo donde el herrero...
Chillida Lantoki, Taller de Ricardo Mediavilla y Fabrika - Legazpi
De la tradición a la modernidad
Zerain is a community which has lived close to agriculture and sheepherding.Natural resources have also been exploited, such as minerals, wood, coal, etc. ZERAIN CULTURAL LANDSCAPE is a project of the future aimed at designing the natural and human landscape by promoting high quality agricultural...
Zerain Cultural Landscape
The Iron Mountain
The mining tradition of Mutiloa is present in this cultural landscape of great natural wealth. The iron extracted in Ollargain and Peatza fed the Guipuzcoan forges located next to the Urola and Oria rivers and, centuries later, the modern furnaces of the European iron and steel industry. These...
Mutiloa Mining Reserve - Mutiloa
The landscape of iron extraction
Ormaiztegi is a town located in Goierri, equidistant between the two main conurbations of the region: on the one hand Urretxu-Zumarraga and on the other Beasain-Ordizia. It is located next to the Northern railway and on the crossroads of communication between Beasain - Durango. Its strategic...
Viaduct - Ormaiztegi
Not only the meters make it big
Visitors who come to Igartza will know first-hand the history of this important place and the changes that have been happening over the centuries. The buildings that make up the complex are witness to this history; thus, with the visit of the hermitage, the palace, the dam, the ironworks and the...
Igartza Monumental Complex - Beasain
From tradition 0.0 to industry 4.0: a continuous development
The railway is one of the great achievements of the Industrial Revolution. Steam, iron and steel came together to create a means of transport that revolutionised society, shortened travel times and was the second-to-none contribution to globalisation. Over practically two centuries, the train’s...
Basque Railway Museum - Azpeitia
A travel back in time
Agorregi is a monumental complex, dating from the 18th century, which includes a forge and various mills, showcasing different forms of the use of...
Agorregi forge and mills - Aia
The valley of iron and water
The Fandería mill building reflects the strength and evolution of the industry in Errenteria for 500 years. Taking advantage of the power of water, in the fifteenth century, it served as a driving force for the forge of Renteriola and, over the years, it was transformed into a splitting mill...
Mill of Fanderia - Errenteria
River's House
The Arditurri Mines are in the heart of the Aiako Harria Natural Park in Oiartzun. Although it could have been the Iron Age inhabitants who discovered and exploited the seams of minerals, the first organised mining documented corresponds to the Roman Empire. During this period, they opened up...
Arditurri Coal Mine - Ergoien
Mining experience
The site of Irugurutzeta constitutes the largest battery of calcination furnaces to exploit the iron carbonate existing in Gipuzkoa and one of the most important in the Basque Country. It is located in Aiako Harria, which has been a mining area since the Iron Age, was also exploited by the Romans...
The Irugurutzeta mining reserve - Irun
Irugurutzeta, a train ride to the iron mountain
Chillida Leku is a unique museum, and itself a great work of art. Nature and art naturally come together in the space. The sculptures are integrated into the landscape as though they had always been part of it. In the garden, beech, oak and magnolia trees live alongside the monumental steel and...
Chillida Leku - Hernani
Museum dedicated to the life and works of Eduardo Chillida
La ruta obrera, es una ruta urbana, que muestra la forma de vida de las familias obreras que llegaron al País Vasco buscando un futuro mejor. En la ruta se pueden visitar además diferentes espacios recreados: la Vivienda Obrera, la escuela, la Capilla y el espacio...
La Ruta Obrera - Legazpi
Miles de familias llegaron buscando un futuro mejor
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