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Navelgas gold panning championship

Tineo, Narcea, Asturias

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Navelgas gold panning championship

Activity · Tineo, Narcea, Asturias

Image of Tineo, not of the place itself.

A gold panning contest on the River Navelgas in which competitors look for nuggets by swirling the pan, heir to a practice that in this valley goes back to the Roman gold mining of western Asturias.

Photo: Sitomon (Public domain)

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