Neighbourhood O Barreiro
A working-class neighbourhood with an European inspiration.
The need to shelter new families of workers from ENDESA coming from other regions of Spain provokes the planning of the fourth residential zone in As Pontes.
The person in charge of this project was the architect José Ramón Miyar Caridad. He plans an architectural complex following the European working-class neighbourhood based on social housing models from the first quarter of the 20th century in Germany and Austria. The German Siedlungen and the Viennese Höfe tried to dignify the working-class home conditions.
Following this model, O Barreiro has 232 homes within an area of 2.5 ha, with 29 buildings of 4 floors. They are placed in three lines, so that a big central square was created for children to play. There were two types of homes, with 3 and 4 bedrooms, with a living/dining room, kitchen with clothesline, bathroom and hall.
The person in charge of this project was the architect José Ramón Miyar Caridad. He plans an architectural complex following the European working-class neighbourhood based on social housing models from the first quarter of the 20th century in Germany and Austria. The German Siedlungen and the Viennese Höfe tried to dignify the working-class home conditions.
Following this model, O Barreiro has 232 homes within an area of 2.5 ha, with 29 buildings of 4 floors. They are placed in three lines, so that a big central square was created for children to play. There were two types of homes, with 3 and 4 bedrooms, with a living/dining room, kitchen with clothesline, bathroom and hall.
Interpretation Centre “A Mina” (the Mine)
A journey from the origins of the coal mine to the present-day.
Centro Expositivo da Maquinaria Mineira das Pontes "CEMAM" (exhibition of minign machinery)
Machines and human beings together in a space talking about the titanic work of coal mining in As Pontes.
Mill of the Light Factory
The first power station in As Pontes de García Rodríguez.
Neighbourhood A Fraga
A working-class neighbourhood with an European inspiration.
Neighbourhood A Madalena
A working-class neighbourhood with an European inspiration.
Neighbourhood As Veigas
The city planned in the heart of As Pontes and which is the jewel of our industrial heritage.
Neighbourhood O Muíño
A working-class neighbourhood with an European inspiration.
Neighbourhood O Barreiro
A working-class neighbourhood with an European inspiration.
Path Calvo Sotelo
A walk through key spaces in the history of industrialization of As Pontes.
Path of the Memory
A glance to the memory of the places vanished due to the exploitation of the mine, within a beautiful route around the Lake of As Pontes.
Ribeira Reservoir
It was built in 1963 on the River Eume, originally to meet the needs of the As Pontes thermal power station.
Eume Reservoir
A cutting-edge dam. Luciano Yordi's dam design represented a significant step forward in the development of Spanish arch dams (1955)