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Closure of coal mining in the Peña

Santibáñez de la Peña, Alto Carrión, Palencia

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Closure of coal mining in the Peña

Historical milestone · Santibáñez de la Peña, Alto Carrión, Palencia

Image of Santibáñez de la Peña, not of the place itself.

The last anthracite working in the municipal district ceased activity in 1990 and closed almost a century of mining which, since the end of the nineteenth century, had multiplied the population of the villages at the foot of the range.

1990

Photo: Valdavia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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