- Title Ribadesella Eastern Asturias
- Address Address: Antiguas Escuelas ■ 33567 - El Carmen/El Carme
- Phone Phone: 985 861 563
Located in the eastern part of Asturias, between the sea and the mountains, the history and economy of the council have been marked by its seafaring and agricultural tradition, but also by its mining operations. This human activity has taken place in a territory of great geological diversity, whose evolution has left us very good examples of different geological periods.
Natural Heritage: Ordovician
The ground floor is dedicated to Natural Heritage, focusing at this time on the geological period of the Ordovician. The construction of the Ordovician Fabar tunnel belonging to the Cantabrian motorway gave geology a unique opportunity: to study layer by layer the marine sediments and fossils between 500 and 435 million years old.
Historical Heritage
Developed on the first floor, which houses the history of Ribadesella/Ribeseya from its origins as a medieval town until the 1930s. Through its vision we can learn about the evolution of the town, its adaptation to the physical environment and its subsequent transformation so that the town developed as we see it today: the medieval layout, the nineteenth-century expansion on the land reclaimed from the river and the garden city developed on the old sandy area of Santa Marina.
Through the models, photographs and historical documents, we will be able to understand the activities that were the basis of the Riosella economy: fishing, trade, the exploitation of certain minerals and local agricultural products. Understand the phenomenon of emigration through the emblematic brigantine Habana and its effects, especially in the appearance of the rural school. These changes in mentality are also transferred to leisure: the appearance of summer holidays and the use of beaches. Finally, there is a small ethnographic section dedicated to Ergue, the jargon used by the local stonemasons.
As a complement to this historical visit, the museum has the original drawings by Antonio Mingote that served as the basis for the panels of the Historical Route of the Port.
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Individual: €1.60
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