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Steam, diesel and electric locomotives and shunters and other rolling stock, mostly from Asturias' industrial heyday of coal and steel. The steam locos are occasionally fired up and haul rides, but it's just for 100 m up and down the siding. Plus a library and resource on Spanish railways, and model railways.
The Asturias Railway Museum or Gijón Railway museum, in Gijón, Asturias, Spain, is an institution dedicated to restore, preserve and display to the public the railway history of Asturias. It was inaugurated on October 22, 1998 by the current king Felipe VI as Prince of Asturias in that moment. The centre is economically supported by Gijón City Council, and it’s integrated in the museums municipal network. It’s one of the most important Spanish railways museums.
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The aquarium has 60 different habitats of fresh and salt water.
Exhibiting the work of post-impressionist painter Nicanor Piñole (1878-1978). The building of 1902 was originally a school for under-privileged children.
Basílica-Santuario del Sagrado Corazón de Jesus
Ornate OTT church built 1918-22 in a mix of Neo-Gothic and Modernist.
A working-class housing block, named for the fellow who built it in 1877, and inhabited until 1960. It's now a museum, with one house furnished in period. Folk here lived in cramped conditions, with a single window to each house.
A fortified settlement from 500 BC on a breezy headland, with museum and reconstructed dwellings. It was Romanized in the 1st century AD but abandoned after the founding of Gijón.
Extensive display of Atlantic plants.