In the center of the historic center of Aviles, where the first Cantabrian town arose a thousand years ago, stands the Museum of Urban History of Avilés.
In the center of the historic center of Aviles, where the first Cantabrian town arose a thousand years ago, stands the Museum of Urban History of Avilés.
Located on Calle de La Ferrería, in front of San Nicolás de Bari, for centuries the town's first parish church, current convent temple of the Franciscan Fathers and also in front of the Oscar Niemeyer International Cultural Center, the last milestone in the long history of Avilés.
The MHUA offers the visitor an original tour, since the visit begins on the ground floor with a historical speech that summarizes the history of Avilés, a rich past that joins the present through a window that offers the visitor the contemplation of the the only work created in Spain by the great architect Oscar Niemeyer.
On the second floor, continuing with the tour, the visitor finds the splendor of a medieval town with a charter granted by Alfonso VI in 1085 and confirmed by his grandson, Alfonso VII, seventy years later and which generated intense urban and commercial activity. , turning the port of Avilesino into the port of Oviedo and León.
The imposing palaces of modern Avilés and the illustrious personalities with their own names such as Pedro Menéndez, Juan Carreño de Miranda, Menéndez Camina ... complete the content of this space.
The tour ends on the first floor where the splendor of the late nineteenth century lived in Avilés is shown with the "round trip" to Cuba, which gave rise to the "indianos", the first patrons of the town. Already in the 20th century, the arrival of ENSIDESA revolutionized not only Avilés, but Asturias.
Old School of Ceramics Exhibition Hall
The rich diplomatic collection of the municipal archive, social life, work, housing, the first industrial activities such as ceramics and boilermaking in Miranda, emigration to Cuba, the cultural world of Aviles, or the arrival of immigrants from other regions Spanish to build and work at ENSIDESA, they form a discourse throughout the chapters The medieval town, The modern town, The bourgeois city, The industrial city , in which the Museum of Urban History of Avilés is distributed.ENSIDESA 1959 exhibition. The birth of a giant.
A museum that has modern interactive elements for the visitor to delve into the knowledge of such a rich past; elements with which it is intended that locals and strangers discover and enjoy Avilés, a town with an urban structure and an architectural and monumental heritage that is itself a museum.
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