Name: Hotel San Martino
Address: Lugar Samartino 3, Pola de Lena, Asturias, 33695, Spain
Telephone: 613127316

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Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias
The Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias is a museum in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain. It is situated within three buildings: the Palacio de Velarde, the House of Oviedo-Portal, and the House of Solís-Carbajal.
Museo de la Minería y de la Industria de Asturias (MUMI)
Los visitantes del MUMI tienen la oportunidad de descender en la “jaula” (el ascensor minero) 600 metros tierra adentro hasta llegara a la mina imagen, un paseo de casi 1000 metros en el que conocer a través de distintas recreaciones los aspectos más significativos del arranque (por picadores, rozadora, entibación,…) y extracción del carbón, los tipos de sostenimiento utilizados en galerías y el transporte interior.Dotados de equipamiento real, nos sentiremos como mineros recorriendo sus galerías y diferentes talleres mientras escuchamos el ruido de los martillos, la voladura controlada de una zona en explotación o viajando incluso en el tren que utilizaban los antiguos trabajadores.
Iglesia de Santa Cristina de Lena
The church of Santa Cristina de Lena, dating from the mid-ninth century within the Ramiran period of the Asturian pre-Romanesque due to its parallels with the palace of Santa Maria del Naranco (Oviedo), is a simple construction but not without charm. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985. The church underwent its most important restoration in 1893, when Juan Bautista Lázaro replaced the existing wooden roof with a vaulted ceiling.Every year, in honor of Santa Cristina, a traditional pilgrimage is held on the last Sunday of July, with an auction of bread.https://www.aytolena.es/santa-cristina
Iglesia de San Martino
HE SAN MARTINO CHURCH is located in the place of the same name in the parish of Villallana.of the same name in the parish of Villallana, located in a very rugged terrain, with steep slopes, in one of the last foothills of the Sierra del Aramo.Aramo mountain range. This place is named San Martino de Gárgara at the end of theof Gárgara at the end of the XIIth century and it will be so in the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries.XVIII and XIX centuries, although this last denomination is not conserved at the present time.The temple of San Martino had a single nave topped by a semicircular apse, and it is possible that it wasoriented towards the west, as it is today, although the building underwentbuilding underwent numerous alterations throughout its history.One of them took place in the 17th century, although the most important was in 1893 during themost important was that of 1893, during which the entire church wasthe whole temple, losing and altering a good part of the original Romanesqueof the original Romanesque masonry was lost and altered. Of it only the north wallsthe north and south walls of the nave are preserved in situ, on which a narrower wall was erecteda narrower wall that has several oculi made of solid brick.made of solid red brick, a material that is frequently found in other parts of thefrequently found in other renovated parts of the church.the church. In addition, the building was extended to the east side, a fact which isthe east side, a fact that can also be seen on the outside, by demolishing the previousthe exterior, demolishing the previous Romanesque wall and building a new one to support the large belfry that was added. In the renovation, the apse was moved further to the west, and two side chapels weretwo side chapels that form the two arms of the current cruciform scheme were introduced, and, attached to these chapels, two other rooms for sacristies were built. Atoutside, on the north side, there is an arcosolium of difficult dating.
Vía Verde Senda del Oso
The path, in the shape of a "Y" has two options for the route, Tuñón-Cueva Huerta (Teverga) and Tuñón- Ricao (Quirós). Both routes start at the Tuñón rest area; first it runs along the left bank of the Trubia River, but later it passes to the right, advancing between the river and the road.It is recommended to do it in several stages in order to fully enjoy it.It is a pedestrian path, of low difficulty and well signposted, which runs along an old mining railroad track. It has several rest areas and a multitude of information panels. It crosses four councils: Quirós, Santo Adriano, Proaza and Teverga, which make up the so-called Valles del Oso, for being the refuge of one of the last populations of the Cantabrian brown bear, one of the three species of brown bear in Europe.Undoubtedly, the greatest attraction of the route is to see the bears that are in the enclosure halfway, but the Senda del Oso is much more. This old railroad, nowadays recovered as a green trail, gives us the possibility of seeing good extensions of oaks, which sit on limestone with more than three hundred million years old.Geology rules and the Peñas Juntas pass opens us to the valley of Teverga, at the foot of Peña Sobia and the climbing school of Teverga.
Ruta de Las Xanas
One of the best known routes in Asturias, and no wonder. This gorge opened in the rock by the stream of Las Xanas is a spectacle for the eye and for the camera. In it we can discover, if we look closely, stalactites of ancient caves opened in the limestone and that the river cut leaving them uncovered.At the bottom of the valley, under our feet, a typical riparian forest develops of which we only see the tops from the air; above, in the areas where the limestone has almost no soil, in its crevices, are the oaks that survive barely.Iron mining left its mark in the area in an old mine whose mouth we find in the middle of the route. As we ascend we leave behind the gorge, to enter the forest, first, and in the green pastures, then, culminating next to the church of Pedroveya, where we sit down to eat a sandwich if we do not have a table reserved in the village and enjoy an idyllic landscape.https://www.turismoasturias.es/descubre/naturaleza/rutas/senderismo/ruta-de-las-xanas
Vía romana de La Carisa
Among the numerous Roman roads that crossed Asturias and connected it with the lands of León, those of La Mesa, Caoro or Portudera and La Carisa or Pajares stand out for their importance. The latter has a section that is still well preserved, with cobblestones, between Olloniego and the famous La Venta del Aire, in the lands of Oviedo, now complemented by the green path to Las Caldas.In the past, on the occasion of the pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela, the entrance to Asturias, to visit the Oviedo cathedral of El Salvador and after passing through the collegiate church of Arbás, was via the Pajares pass, following an old Roman road which crossed Valgrande (and previously via the Alto de La Carisa) and reached Pola de Lena. From there it followed the road to the lands of Mieres del Camino, El Padrún, Olloniego, La Manzaneda, Venta del Aire (one of the most famous road sales), La Manjoya, Oviedo, Llanera and Gijón.This road was actually a branch of the famous Silver Route. The one that reached the Cantabrian Sea coming from León. Just like another branch, or Roman road, which left from Astorga, entered Asturias through Puerto de La Mesa and also ended in Gijón (Noega or Gigia), also passing through Lucus Asturum (Lugo de Llanera). This other road is known by the name of Camín Real de La Mesa and some people mistakenly believe that it ended in Grado. These two Roman roads served as an important link between the Cantabrian coast and the lands of León.One of the best preserved sections of the Roman road of La Carisa (or Ruta de La Plata) and later Camino de Santiago, is between Olloniego (with an interesting palace and Roman bridge) and the Oviedo district of La Manjoya, where the church of Santiago is located. From there it links up with the San Lázaro district and the new green path from Oviedo to Las Caldas and Fuso de La Reina.
Parque Natural Las Ubiñas-La Mesa
This protected area was declared by Law 5/2006, of 30 May; it occupies land belonging to the councils of Lena, Quirós and Teverga, from East to West, with a total surface area of 45,163 ha, of which 13,548.30 ha correspond to the council of Quirós; this surface area represents approximately 64.88% of the total area of the council and in turn is 30% of the total surface area of the Park. On 11 July 2012 it was declared a Biosphere Reserve by Unesco. (news)This is a mountainous territory in which the Ubiña Massif stands out, with heights of over two thousand metres, with the Picos del Fontán being the highest at 2417 m., in the council of Quirós; this is a massif with a clear karstic and glacial modelling as can be seen in the Puertos de Agüeria or in Socel.lares. This karstic modelling can also be seen in the Sierra de Sobia, the natural dividing line between Quirós and Teverga, and in the Marabio passes to the north of the latter.The La Mesa and La Carisa mountain ranges delimit the Park to the west and east respectively, and the Cantabrian Mountain Range, in which the Ubiña Massif is located, between Picu Tres Concejos to the east and Picu Las Piedras to the west, delimits the Park on its southern slope, passing through the mountain passes of Pajares, La Cubilla and Ventana, following the limits with the neighbouring province of León.The Park has a wide range of altitudes, as well as a variety of calcareous and siliceous substrates, giving rise to a wide diversity of vegetation. The autochthonous forest masses, in which beech, oak and birch forests cover a third of the Park's territory; in this sense, the forest of Lindes and the forest of Pará stand out. The holm oak and yew woods are very abundant, with the Ports of Agüeria being one of the most outstanding places in this respect. Above these wooded formations there are extensive pastures, mainly used by the local livestock during the summer, which in turn have given rise to the existence of ancestral "brañas", including the Cardosina and Cardosa in the Puertos de Agüeria, the Canchongo and Duernas in the Sierra de Sobia and the Quintaneiru at the foot of the Picu Mayor, among many others in the council of Quirós.The fauna is represented by the main species of the Asturian fauna, especially the Brown Bear, with the main breeding centres in the council of Quirós. Other species such as the wolf, wild cat, badger, otter, roe deer, wild boar, red deer or deer and chamois are very abundant, as well as a great variety of mustelids and rodents, among other species. As for birds, the capercaillie, golden eagle, Egyptian vulture, peregrine falcon, goshawk, grey partridge, vulture, Alpine sparrow, etc. are also present in the Park. The rainbow trout is the queen of the five main river basins that make up the park. In Quirós, the rivers Lindes and Ricabo stand out, separated by the mass of Peña Rueda and which, after their union in Santa Marina, form the river Trubia, known in the council as the river Quirós.
Universidad Laboral de Gijón
Originally conceived as a miners' orphanage and transformed at the time of its construction into the Universidad Laboral, Luis Moya's building was conceived as a large, self-contained, autarkic ideal city, which even had a 100-hectare farm and was prepared to train generations of workers' children as highly qualified professionals.Built according to the ideals of classicist architecture, the centre of this ideal city would be the great central square, around which the magnificent church, the tower, the theatre and the management buildings would be arranged. Around this monumental heart of the city, the rest of the buildings are spread out, including the open-plan halls built for vocational training workshops.The construction of the complex began in 1948 and work continued for years until it was abruptly halted in 1957, following the abrupt dismissal of the Minister of Labour José Antonio Girón, the main driving force behind the Spanish labour universities. By then, the first students were already attending the first classes at the Gijón institution. Unfinished and surrounded by legendary stories, the mass of the Universidad Laboral de Gijón/Xixón lived for almost half a century between the unconditional affectionate enthusiasm of those who lived there and the incomprehension or outright rejection of those who observed it from an unbridled or extemporaneous point of view.At the Universidad Laboral de Gijón/Xixón, run by the Jesuits from the beginning and assisted in the daily administration by Poor Clare nuns, generations of students and qualified professionals were trained - lathe operators, industrial masters, welders, millers, experts... - coming from all the Spanish provinces. Many of them now form an active Alumni Association which keeps alive the memory of the history of the institution.In the eighties, the Universidad Laboral became part of the Instituto Nacional de Enseñanzas Integradas and a large part of the facilities remained unused, subject to an unstoppable process of abandonment and deterioration until 2001, when the Government of the Principality of Asturias took over the building and began to design an ambitious plan of uses to breathe new life into the underused ideal city of Moya.The object of all kinds of contrasting political, artistic and ideological readings, the ideal city has overcome all contradictions to reach the 21st century as what it always was: a magnificent and singular discourse of pure architectural values. As Rafael Moneo has written, referring to Luis Moya's work as a whole, "now, by detaching ourselves from the circumstantial, we look at it with different eyes, eyes that do not exclude the shock produced by that which seems anomalous because it is less well known, and which is always accompanied, however, by a diffuse feeling in which sympathy and respect intertwine". TransformationWhen in 2001 the Government of the Principality of Asturias took over the Universidad Laboral de Gijón/Xixón building, it was decided to renovate a highly complex space, consolidating its educational functions and creating new complementary uses. It was then conceived to superimpose on the ideal city of Moya an idea of a new city, a centre of cultural and creative production for the 21st century, with spaces for learning and teaching; for seeing, hearing and consuming cultural products; for sharing networks, exchanging knowledge and communicating ideas.It was this defined plan of uses that determined an integral intervention in a complex building of monumental scale, with its 130,000 square metres.Begun in 2005, the main works already undertaken in La Laboral on an area of some 80,000 square metres, have resulted in the emergence of a new building with a total surface area of 130,000 square metres. 80,000 square metres, an art centre has emerged, created from some of the vocational training buildings; a newly built set, which completes the renovated facilities of the convent of the Poor Clares, now the headquarters of Radiotelevisión del Principado de Asturias; a spectacular library, the culmination of part of Moya's unfinished project; the Corinthian Courtyard, converted into a warmly welcoming space thanks to a new glass roof; the magnificent Auditorium and thousands of metres refurbished to house the Integrated Vocational Training Centre, the "Jovellanos" Faculty of Commerce, Tourism and Social Sciences, the Professional Conservatory of Music and Dance and the Higher School of Dramatic Art.After two years of works that did not interfere with the daily life of the building, in March 2007, Laboral Ciudad de la Cultura opened its doors to offer thousands of visitors the opportunity to get to know these new spaces during a fortnight of open days.
Playa de Gulpiyuri
Gulpiyuri is a small beach but located inland, closed to the sea by a cliff where there is a pass that allows the water from the Bay of Biscay to filter through. To get to the beach you have to walk a short distance from an embankment that has been set up as a car park. A path surrounded by green meadows leads to the unique shore. Its isolation has allowed it to be preserved in a virgin state.The beach is made up of white sand and salt water from the sea, which cannot be seen but is only a few metres away. A geological curiosity that was formed due to the wear and tear caused by the waves on the limestone rock of the coast to create a cave towards the interior, then the bottom of the cave sank, (a karstic phenomenon known as a doline), leaving a small circular hole of about 50 m in diameter that is located 100 m from the coast.

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