Theme Week Asturias – Avilés

27 January 2021 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  10 minutes

Calle Galiana © flickr.com - Ángel M. Felicísimo/cc-by-2.0

Calle Galiana © flickr.com – Ángel M. Felicísimo/cc-by-2.0

Avilés is a town in Asturias, Spain. Avilés is with Oviedo and Gijón, one of the main cities in the Principality of Asturias. The town occupies the flattest land in the municipality, in a land that belonged to the sea, surrounded by small promontories, all of them having an altitude of less than 140 metres. Situated in the Avilés estuary, in the Northern Central area of the Asturian coast, west of Peñas Cape, is its national seaport. Avilés is mainly an industrial city. It is close to popular beaches like Salinas. It also has important churches like St. Thomas of Canterbury. Avilés has the Oscar Niemeyer International Cultural Centre (in Spanish: Centro Cultural Internacional Oscar Niemeyer).   read more…

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