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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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Basque Railway Museum - Azpeitia
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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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The Daban’s cowbells - Bourdettes
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Llorts Mine and the Iron Route
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Rossell Forge - la Massana
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Mines museum - Cercs
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Farga Palau - Ripoll
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Forges de Pyrène - Montgailhard
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Chillida Leku - Hernani
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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
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 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
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
Llorts Mine and the Iron Route in Andorra are ideal for discovering the resources linked to the process of obtaining, transforming and commercialising iron. The points of interest distributed throughout the territory enable you to discover one of the most important economic activities to be...
Llorts Mine and the Iron Route
Ironwork memory turned into a road
The valleys of Andorra were an area of iron production between the 17th and 19th centuries. The Rossell Forge in La Massana houses the Iron Interpretation Centre. This is one of the best-preserved examples of its history in the Pyrenees, providing an entertaining multimedia show that plunges you...
Rossell Forge - la Massana
The Iron Interpretation Centre
Un museo dedicado a explicar la extracción del carbón en la mina y como era la vida en una colonia minera del río Llobregat. El museo repasa la historia de unas galerías que hasta el 1991 extrajeron carbón en una industria que fue uno de los motores económicos de la comarca del...
Mines museum - Cercs
Extracting charcoal and life in a mining colony
Descubre el único espacio patrimonial de obtención y producción del hierro que se ha conservado en Cataluña. La Farga fue fundada como forja de hierro en el siglo XV y mantuvo su actividad durante cinco siglos hasta que cerró en el año 1978. Actualmente está restaurada, permite conocer las...
Farga Palau - Ripoll
A unique example: the Catalan forge
Just 5 km out of Foix, in the bucolic setting of a 5 hectare shaded park with a pretty Pyrenean river running through, nestles an unforgotten village known as the “Forges de Pyrène”. In this charming place, a haven from the hectic pace of modern society, artisans and tradesmen re-enact, to...
Forges de Pyrène - Montgailhard
The unforgotten village
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
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