Fishing port, industrial and also sports, Gijón offers the traveler a city with a unique green environment, which highlights the Atlantic Botanical Garden and the Labor City of Culture with its Center for Art and Industrial Creation.
This is Gijón, Roman, metallurgical and oceanic. And also very open, fun, dynamic, and with an Atlantic vocation.
THINGS TO SEE:
A tour of Cimadevilla, an old fishermen’s quarter, which preserves buildings, layout and the atmosphere of its seafaring past. A special place flanked by the Cerro de Santa Catalina, with its Praise of the Horizon, tourist symbol of the city, and the Roman ruins and the medieval wall on the other.
The San Lorenzo beach, the large, two-kilometer-long urban beach, which turns the Gijón seafront into a delight looking out to sea.
Poniente is another of the beaches of Gijón. Artificial sand, ideal as a solarium and for water sports, in an environment where you can enjoy the Aquarium, a thalassotherapy center, restaurants, etc.
The visit to Laboral City of Culture and its Center for Art and Industrial Creation or the Botanical Garden provides an unusual view of the culture and landscape of the Gijon area.
