Interesting for you in Oarsoaldea
Pasaia (Antxo, San Juan, San Pedro)
January 3, 2018(0)Pasaia: historical areas We will go into the historical areas of Donibane and San Pedro during our cultural route. Both areas have their origin in the San Sebastian and Hondarribia foundation. As early as 1765 the municipal authorities sent a document to Madrid, right to the Crown, complaining about the several damages that the above-mentioned…
Mater bonito fishing boat – Itsas gela
January 3, 2018(0)Everyone who visits the MATER will obtain information of how our fishermen live, to which fishing-grounds they go and which arts they use, because it remains as if it could go fishing. With a guided tour in the ship it will be possible to glimpse a part of our maritime history and its evolution up…
Albaola, the sea factory of the basques
January 3, 2018(0)At the mouth of the Bay of Pasaia is a unique place. The Basque Maritime Factory, a place where history comes alive. This place remembers the glorious past of flights in the field of shipbuilding, this site is revived this tradition, a legacy for future generations. COME BY BOAT TO ALBAOLA, THE SEA FACTORY OF…
Boatmen from Pasaia
January 3, 2018(0)In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, women of passages show great skill in steering boats and sloops. These, along with sailors, fencers, muskets were of great strength and as brave in war, every woman was a heroine who surprised because when sailors sailed with his galleons pasaitarras to Newfoundland for cod fishing or…
The rowing races
January 3, 2018(0)Men living along the Cantabric Sea have always needed to be very strong in their arms as seamen. This, together with the characteristic wind force, has been vital to keep rowing until the fishing ground was reached. Once the catch was picked up, it was necessary to come back to the land at top speed…
Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta
January 3, 2018(0)Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta (3 February 1689 – 7 September 1741), also known as “Patapalo” (Pegleg), and later as “Mediohombre” (Half-man) for the many wounds suffered in his long military life, was a Spanish admiral, and one of the great strategists and commanders in the history of the Spanish Navy. He is best known…
Victor Hugo, poet
January 3, 2018(0)Born in Besançon on February 26, 1802, Victor Hugo, poet, dramatist, essayist, novelist, critic, politician, draftsman and painter, was perhaps the greatest exponent of French literature and universal Romanticism of the nineteenth century. Victor Hugo was one of the few people whose enormous talent was acclaimed during his lifetime. His funeral on May 22, 1885…
Planetarium
January 3, 2018(0)In this, the first planetarium in the Iberian Peninsula, dating from 1968, we will discover the sky the way it really is, with no need to tell stories. We can analyse the sky at any latitude, thanks to a Zeiss projector with which we even give nautical astronomy classes. We will learn to read the…
Arditurri Mine Land
January 3, 2018(0)At one of Aiako Harria Natural Park’s entrance hall, anchored at mountains geological conditions, it’s located Arditurri Mine Land. It offers a resounding mine landscape, which in surface, it shows impressive rubble dumpsites, open-cast quarries, oblique drafts and esplanades, mine’s entrances, exploitation’s old buildings and even railway’s course that allowed carrying the mineral to the…
Luberri – Geological Interpretation Centre
January 3, 2018(0)At the Oiartzun Geological Interpretation Centre we will learn about the geological and paleontological wealth of the Oiartzun Valley, the Oarsoaldea Region and the Aiako Harria Nature Park. We will be taken on an exciting journey through the last 1,000 million years, guided by the fossils and rocks, which will explain things on the way.…