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San Lorenzo beach is located in the center of Gijón. With a length of 1550 meters and shell shape, it is one of the most emblematic beaches of the Principality of Asturias. It extends from stairs 0 ("La Cantábrica"), located behind the Church of San Pedro, to stairs number 16 (area popularly known as "el Tostaderu"), at the mouth of the Piles River. However, a rocky area extends for three hundred meters to the "Mayan of Earth", reaching a total length of about 1.8 km. Parallel to it runs the Paseo del Muro de San Lorenzo, which continues eastward beyond the beach itself with the well-known coastal path of Cervigón, a sea route of more than 2 kilometers that brings us closer to other beaches such as Rinconín or from Peñarrubia. In total, the area of ​​the sandy area amounts to 40,000 square meters at high tide and 240,000 at low tide.

Poniente beach is one of the three urban beaches that the city of Gijón has, located in Asturias, Spain, the other two are San Lorenzo and Arbeyal, while the Gijón council has six others. It is artificial in nature and was created in the mid-1990s.

"Gigia" redirects here. For the pre-Roman nucleus of the same name in the province of León, see Gigia (León).

Gigia is the name of an ancient Roman city founded on the hill of Santa Catalina, promontory overlooking the Bay of Gijón (Asturias, Spain), and presumably named.
At that time it was a safe place, since when the tide rose the peninsula became an island, apart from being surrounded by a wall. A defensive environment that had already been used by the Celts, who built a castro on the hill of "Cimadevilla" that lasted until the arrival of the Romans.
It was a maritime city that exported f ...

The Juan Barjola Museum is a museum located in the Asturian town of Gijón, Spain.
The museum was inaugurated on December 16, 1988 after the donation by the painter of 104 works corresponding to the years from 1950 to 1988.
It is managed by the Ministry of Culture of the Principality of Asturias.

The Jovellanos Theater is a theater in the city of Gijón, Principality of Asturias, Spain, located on the Paseo de Begoña, although it originally stood on the nearby Jovellanos Street, at the site currently occupied by the city's public library until it was destroyed during the fighting that took place in the city of Gijón during the 1934 revolt.

The Railway Museum of Asturias is a large museum complex located in the Asturian city of Gijón (Spain), in the Natahoyo neighborhood, next to Poniente beach, considered one of the most important museums in Europe of its kind. The museum occupies part of the former Gijón North Station and was inaugurated on October 22, 1998, with the presence of the then Prince of Asturias, Felipe de Borbón.
The Museum has temporary exhibition halls, its own documentation center (with library, newspaper library, documentary archive and image archive), activity rooms, workshops for schoolchildren, shop and facil ...

Real Instituto Jovellanos is the name of one of the oldest middle school education centers in Spain. It was created in Gijón by Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos; as one of the illustrated projects he carried out in the Principality of Asturias. The idea of creating an educational center that formed in mining and marine arose in the middle of the projects related to the exploitation of the mines that began to open in the coal deposits of the Asturian mining basin, next to the construction of a road that the unite with the port of Gijón (El Musel, whose creation also proposed).

The Revillagigedo Palace or the Marquis of San Esteban del Mar de Natahoyo is a prominent Spanish palace located next to the Marina of the Asturian city of Gijón (Spain) in the Cimadevilla neighborhood, forming a single complex with the Collegiate Church of San Juan.
It is a remarkable sample of the Asturian palatial architecture of the 18th century. In 1974, it was declared of Cultural Interest and today, after its rehabilitation, it houses the Cajastur Palacio Revillagigedo Cultural Center together with the annexed chapel.

The Roman baths of Campo Valdés were public Roman baths located in the current Campo Valdés, in the Cimadevilla neighborhood, in the Asturian town of Gijón. It was declared of Cultural Interest on May 8, 1987.

Magnus Blikstad Street is a street in Gijón, in the Spanish autonomous community of Asturias. It passes between the Plaza del Humedal and Avenida de la Constitución and its zip code is 33207.
The street name refers to Magnus Blikstad and Hauff, Norwegian philanthropist benefactor of local institutions such as the Athenaeum - Casino Obrero, to whose foundation in 1881 he contributed and who placed a plaque with his name in 1919 that is still preserved on one side of the building of the Drop of Milk after being removed during the Spanish Civil War. Named Adoptive Son of Gijón, he died in 1926 in ...

The Gijón-Cercanías station (better known as El Humedal station) was a Feve and Renfe railway station in Gijón, Spain, on the Gijón-Venta de Baños, Gijón-Ferrol and Gijón-Laviana lines , which was the main station. This station was closed to leave room for the construction of the MetroTrén and with it, the underground of the railway in Gijón. Currently, all Renfe and Feve trains use the Gijón Sanz Crespo station.
Between October and November 2014, it was demolished.

Gijón station, also known as Gijón-Sanz Crespo, is the main railway station in the Spanish city of Gijón, Principality of Asturias. It is a provisional terminal station that was inaugurated on March 28, 2011. It has extensive long distance, medium distance, regional and commuter services operated by Renfe on both wide and narrow roads. The routes link Gijón with the main municipalities of the community as well as with the rest of the Cantabrian cornice, the plateau, the Levant and Catalonia.
It is located on Sanz Crespo street in the Laviada de Gijón neighborhood, near the Palace of Justice.

The church of San Pedro is a Catholic temple located in the city of Gijón (Principality of Asturias, Spain), of which it is one of its most representative buildings. It is situated in the Campo Valdés, at one end of the San Lorenzo beach and at the foot of the Cimadevilla neighborhood. It was the only parish temple in the town until 1893. The current church, built between 1945 and 1955 after the destruction of the previous building of the fifteenth century during the Civil War, follows a project by the architects Francisco and Federico Somolinos . Originally in the Gothic style and with numero ...

The Church of San Lorenzo is a Catholic temple built at the beginning of the 20th century on Cabrales street in the city of Gijón (Principality of Asturias, Spain). The building was designed by architect Luis Bellido y González and is neo-Gothic.