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Recently, the Town Council of Villanueva de Oscos, with the collaboration of the Principality of Asturias, has recovered and rehabilitated the mines of this municipality.
They are remains of mines from very different periods, from the Roman period, with the extraction of gold in Mina As Cárquivas, to much more recent exploitations, such as Mina Pena Tascón, which was abandoned in 1957.
The mines that can be visited in the municipality of Villanueva de Oscos are the following:
As Cárquivas Mine:
Extraction:
Gold
Chronology:
Roman undetermined/ Imperial Roman, Approximate period 1st and 2nd century.
Location:
On the AS-27 from El Puerto de la Garganta towards Santa Eulalia de Oscos.
Accessibility:
Good, by the AS-27 and AS-13.
Description:
Exploitation on primary, consisting of three cuts (open pit excavations worked with the Ruina Montium system), a gallery and tailings deposit.
Busdemouros Mine:
Mining:
iron ore and copper.
Chronology:
S. XVIII and XIX
Location:
It is accessed by the AS-11 towards Puerto de la Garganta from Vegadeo and turn off towards the village of Busdemouros.
Accessibility:
Good, by road AS-13 and AS-11 and asphalted track.
Description:
Ditches, slag heaps, and mouths can be seen.
Pena Tascón Mine:
Extraction:
Iron with lead and zinc
Chronology:
From the 14th to the 20th century (exploitation was abandoned in 1957).
Location:
Pena Curiscada, southeast of Villanueva de Oscos, near the village of Ovellariza.
Accessibility:
good by the AS-13, asphalt road from Ovellariza and a short stretch of dirt road.
Description:
The loading dock, trench, wagons, railroad track and galleries can be seen.
What to see?
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Castro As Croas de Eilale
- San Tirso de Abres
- Heritage
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Viduedo Farmhouse
- Santa Eulalia de Oscos
- Organic livestock farming
The Viduedo farm is a certified organic livestock farm located in the village of As Poceiras, where the animals are raised in direct contact with the environment, feeding all year round on natural pastures, which is a guarantee of health and quality.
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Ferrería de Santa Eufemia
- Villanueva de Oscos
- Ethnographic set
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Hiottoko artistic forge and cutlery workshop-shop
- Santa Eulalia de Oscos
- Craft
Traditionally, in Santa Eulalia de Oscos, knives have been made for more than a century. Nowadays Jorge (knifemaker) and Keiko (metal craftswoman) maintain this tradition developing this ancient craft to which they add part of the Japanese ancestral wisdom.
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Marquis of Sargadelos Birthplace Museum
- Santa Eulalia de Oscos
- Museum
The house where Antonio Raimundo Ibáñez, Marquis of Sargadelos (1749-1809) was born is now an exhibition space dedicated to the life and work of this industrial and enlightened merchant, who in the late 18th century built in Sargadelos (Cervo, Lugo) one of the first cast-iron foundry and earthenware factories in Spain.
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Eo Leche Artisan Cheese Factory
- Taramundi
The Eo Leche Taramundi cheese factory is located in the Parque de Empresas Artesanas, about 400 meters from the center of the town of Taramundi.
