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Arms Industry Museum - Eibar
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Elgoibar machine-tool museum - Elgoibar
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Chillida Lantoki, Taller de Ricardo Mediavilla y Fabrika - Legazpi
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Viaduct - Ormaiztegi
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Basque Railway Museum - Azpeitia
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Mill of Fanderia - Errenteria
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The Irugurutzeta mining reserve - Irun
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The Daban’s cowbells - Bourdettes
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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
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
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
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
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 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
It's in Bourdettes at the foot of Pyrenees, a village close to Nay where the pastoral practice and the transhumance are still very important, that Daban's industry is located. It is the 10th generations' heir of the traditional cowbells’ manufacturing, made from baked sheet...
The Daban’s cowbells - Bourdettes
A family and ancestral know-how
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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