Industrial Spain
Mining towns, salt terraces and a mineral railway: the industrial layer that shaped whole regions of Spain.
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Andalusia · Basque Country
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Spain's industrial history is not in the museums of Madrid. It is in a salt valley in Álava and a copper town in Huelva where a British company built its own railway and its own social life.
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Minas de Riotinto
A Huelva mining town where the river runs red and a British company dug copper by the ton.
Vizcaya Bridge
The world's first transporter bridge, still carrying cars and passengers across the Nervión on a hanging gondola.
Salinas de Añana
An inland salt valley of wooden terraces, worked for salt long before anyone thought of the coast.
Ferrocarril Minero de Riotinto
A restored mineral railway running through the mining landscape on the old company line.
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