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What to see and do in Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo

What to see and do in Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo (Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba): 8 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 3 Monuments · 1 Curiosities · 3 Historical milestones

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What to see and do in Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo

Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo
Village
Municipality of the Valle del Guadiato with 10,244 inhabitants (2025), at 537 m altitude and 79 km from the city of Córdoba. It arose from the 1927 merger of Peñarroya and Pueblonuevo del Terrible, both of which had grown rapidly through coal mining to reach a combined population of around 24,000 by 1914. Mining, run by the Sociedad Minera y Metalúrgica de Peñarroya, continued until the closure of ENCASUR in 2012.
Museo Geológico-Minero y Barrio Francés
Monument
The Museo Geológico-Minero, housed in a former jute factory, preserves minerals and pieces relating to local mining history. The so-called Barrio Francés brings together the Neoclassical architecture built for the mining company's executives.
Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Rosario (Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo)
Monument
A 16th-century temple, the oldest in Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo, predating the urban development brought by mining in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Patrimonio industrial minero de Peñarroya
Monument
Evidence of the municipality's mining and industrial past: the 19th-century railway station, the ruins of the lead smelter and the old central silo, along with the textile and paper mills that completed the industrial complex of the Sociedad Minera y Metalúrgica de Peñarroya.
Ferrocarril Almorchón-Belmez (1868)
Historical milestone
The railway line between Almorchón and Belmez, which passed through Peñarroya, opened in 1868 to carry coal out of the mining basin, a milestone that spurred the growth of the town.
Fusión municipal de Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo (1927)
Historical milestone
Peñarroya, which had gained its municipal independence in 1896, merged in 1927 with Pueblonuevo del Terrible to form the present-day municipality of Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo.
Cierre de la minería en Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo (2012)
Historical milestone
Mining, the economic engine of the municipality since the 19th century, ceased definitively in 2012, closing out more than a hundred years of coal extraction in the basin.
Real Centro Filarmónico Guadiato y Sierra
Curiosity
A choral group active since 1991 that performs traditional music linked to the mining basin and has taken part in international cultural exchanges, heir to the strong musical tradition of the mining region's philharmonic societies.