Ludvika | Sweden
At Flogberget Mine iron ore was mined on and off from the 17th century and up until 1918. Production stopped in 1899 but resumed in 1906, and ceased altogether in 1918.The visitor mine was opened from 2002 by a voluntary association, the Flogberg Sellskapel which also arranges theatrical ...
Ludvika | Sweden
Hammarbacken is part of old Ludvika ironworks and dating back to the 16th century. Four buildings are conserved and open to the public, a smith’s house of four rooms, with walls of iron slag, a house showing the living conditions of a family of circa 1900, another house used for meetings, and a ...
Norberg | Sweden
Lapphyttan is a site of world importance in industrial archaeology and a place where you can go back in time to see an early furnace in action. Archaeological excavations from the 1970s proved this was the oldest site discovered of a blast furnace – the innovation that revolutionised iron making. ...
Bäretswil | Switzerland
Between Bäretswil and Bauma the former Neuthal spinning mill is situated. The historically important factory ensemble is wonderfully embedded in the hilly landscape of the Zurich Oberland and is classified as a site of national importance. The region experienced an incredible boom in the textile ...
Schlatt | Switzerland
Only a few meters from where bathers and water sport aficionados enjoy the Rhine in fine weather stands Klostergut Paradies, with its unique Iron Library. The core of this special library, set in the idyllic surroundings a former convent, is literature on the history of iron and steel. The ...
Belgrade | Serbia
The Nikola Tesla Museum is one of the world's most unique scientific and cultural institutions, because its collection contains Tesla's valuable legacy. Tesla (1856 - 1943) is a Serbian-American inventor and scientist, a pioneer in electrification, significantly influenced the technological ...
Leskovac | Serbia
The Vučje hydropower plant is located on the Vučjanka River rising below the Kukavica Mountain. At the beginning of the 20th century, Leskovac had enough businessmen ready to invest capital and become pioneers of the new age making possible all the above technical wonders by using the new energy ...
Niš | Serbia
The 'Sveta Petka' hydropower plant is located on the Nišava River rising in Bulgaria. The most famous geological formation created by the Nišava River is the so-called Sićevačka Gorge containing the 'Sveta Petka' and 'Sićevo' hydropower plants, both designed by Nikola Tesla and ĐorđeStanojević. ...
Užice | Serbia
The 'Pod Gradom' hydropower plant is situated below the walls of the medieval town of Užice, on the Đetinja River. Today it is a small living museum and a location on the cultural route 'Tesla Ways'. The idea of professor Đorđe Stanojević (1858-1921) regarding the Đetinja River water utilisation ...
Abanto-Zierbena | Spain
The Asociación Cultural Meuseo Minero (Cultural Association for the Mining Museum) was established in 1986 as mining was finally coming to an end, and opened the museum in 2001. Its headquarters is in an old slaughterhouse near a vast open-cast pit, Corta Concha II, from which siderite (iron ...
Aia | Spain
Standing in the heart of Pagoeta Natural Park, next to the Iturraran homestead, the Agorregi Ironworks and flour mills, plus the infrastructure of reservoirs, dams and canals. This faithfully reproduces the 18th century iron industry. The earliest records date it to the beginning of the fifteenth ...
Araia | Spain
The industrial landscape resulted from the iron smelting activities of Ajuria & Urigoitia, one of the first steel mills in the country. Visitors have the chance to see the state’s first electric induction furnace and the first blast furnace of Euskadi. Situated at the entrance to the Aizkorri-Aratz ...
Barakaldo | Spain
The Ilgner building is the only building still standing out of Barakaldo’s entire Altos Hornos de Vizcaya (AHV) steel works complex which was used for production. It is a concrete building, both monumental and grandiose thanks to its construction materials and its plan. It was built in 1927 to house ...
Beasain | Spain
The Igartza monument complex has its origins in the 14th century, when the Lord of Lazcano built a tower and a wooden bridge. The monuments that we see today date from the 16th and 17th centuries, and the complex includes a palace, mill, forge, dam, hermitage, bridge, cross and the Hotel Dolarea. ...
Bilbao | Spain
Bilbao Maritime Museum is located on the former site of the outbuildings of the Euskalduna shipyard. Its purpose is to preserve and present the history, culture, and identity of the men and women who have lived on and from the sea in Bilbao and Biscay, areas with a strong maritime tradition. The ...
Konsoni Lantegia is a warehouse where the Basque Government Department of Culture and Linguistic Policy stores all the moveable industrial items considered to be Cultural Heritage. Visitors to this old store can find around 2000 items: old motorbikes, fire trucks, linotype machines and printing ...
Castrillón | Spain
In 1833, a Belgian company settled in Arnao with a radically innovative project in Asturias, a vertical pit was drilled for the extraction of coal below sea level. Today, its spectacular headframe is one of the most striking elements of the museum. The underwater mine continued working until the ...
Donostia-San Sebastián | Spain
The Basque Maritime Museum is located in one of the few buildings that survived when the city was burned to the ground by British and Portuguese troops after the siege of 1813. The museum has no permanent exhibition but annually presents several large temporary exhibitions on the Basque maritime ...
Donostia-San Sebastian | Spain
The oldest cable car in Euskadi covers 312.5 metres at a speed of 1.5 m/s, climbing 151 metres. It was opened on 25 August 1912, and its wooden carriages still conserve the charm of that period. From the base of the mountain, the cable car takes you directly to the panoramic terraces of Mount ...
Donostia-San Sebastián | Spain
The cement museum at Donostia was established in 2000 by the company which now forms part of the Heidelberg group, and still has a plant in Donostia-San Sebastián. The museum occupies a modern building and its displays tell the story of mortars from antiquity to the present day, with particular ...