Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Functioning mine museum at Arnao featuring the oldest vertical shaft in Asturian coal mining, a Bien de Interés Cultural headframe, and accessible submarine galleries.

Closed Asturian coal shaft at Ciaño, Langreo, with surviving 1940 welded-steel headframe and 1920s pithead buildings listed in the regional heritage inventory.

Surviving restored steel headframe of a former Asturian coal shaft, listed in the Inventario del Patrimonio Cultural de Asturias, standing in the Sama de Langreo urban area.

Closed Asturian coal shaft at La Foz, Morcín, with surviving 40-metre headframe listed in the Asturian Cultural Heritage Inventory, and coal-loading tolvas reused as a dairy ethnographic museum.

Standing steel headframe of the second shaft of Mina La Camocha, the oldest surviving headframe at the site, protected under Gijón's heritage catalogue.

Preserved steel headframe of the third shaft of Mina La Camocha, a coal mine of major industrial and labour history significance near Gijón.

Surviving lattice-steel headframe of the Pozo Peragido, the last colliery to close in the Barruelo coalfield of Palencia, still standing at the site.

Former lignite shaft of the Turolense coalfield, now open as a heritage interpretation centre with its preserved 52-metre steel headframe.

Abandoned closed colliery at La Nueva, Langreo, forming part of the Ecomuseo Minero Valle de Samuño landscape, with a 1985 steel extraction tower and notable circular wash-house.

Fully functioning heritage mine museum at La Nueva, Langreo, centrepiece of the Ecomuseo Minero Valle de Samuño, with intact 1930 Art Deco winding house and BIC-listed riveted-iron headframe.