Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Closed Asturian coal shaft in Tuilla, Langreo, retaining a rehabilitated 1950 welded-steel headframe and a deteriorated engine house, both protected by heritage listing.

Demolished coal shaft site at Santa Lucía de Gordón, León, the oldest of the Nueva Mina group, whose 18-metre headframe was demolished in October 2017.

Demolished coal shaft site at Llombera de Gordón, León, scene of a fatal 2013 grisú disaster; headframe demolished 2021 and site converted to agricultural use.

Restored coal mine interpretation centre at San Andrés de Turón, featuring a unique 1927 riveted-iron extraction tower with wooden cab, open to visitors in the Turón valley.

Preserved antracite shaft and heritage visitor centre, declared a Bien de Interés Cultural as part of the Cuenca Minera de Fabero in 2021.

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.