Langreo Voyage Tips and guide

Langreo is a town in Asturias in northern Spain, 20 km southeast of Oviedo, with a population of 38,000 in 2024. It's post-industrial, part of the Asturias rust belt, and that heritage is the main reason to visit.

This area has both coal and iron deposits, so it's long been a centre for steel-making, but its heyday was the 19th century. The coal was exhausted first but industry continued by trading Spanish iron ore for Welsh coal. A series of villages each with their own mine and foundry grew into each other, the largest being La Felguera and Sama. This created a valley corridor of grime, ribbon development and industrial strife, which became uneconomic in the 20th century and degenerated into a brownfield. It has attracted some new businesses - Bayer makes aspirin here - but it's mostly a commuter town for Oviedo.

43°18′0″N 5°40′59″W

Map of Langreo

For long-distance routes see Oviedo. The nearest airport is Asturias (OVD ^IATA), take the hourly bus to Oviedo and change.

By road from the south follow A-66 to Mieres then join AS-1 towards Gijón.

Langreo sprawls along a valley and has half-a-dozen railway stations at the convergence of two Cercanías commuter lines. Train C2 runs hourly from Oviedo, taking 30 min, and continues to El Entrego. Train C5 runs hourly from Gijón Sanz Crespo via El Berrón, continuing via El Entrego to Laviana. Change at El Berrón for Pola de Siero and Infiesto, change at Oviedo for most other places on the network.

43.3049-5.69291 La Felguera is the main station, on the Oviedo line. It's a simple halt, buy tickets from the machines.

La Felguera-Nuevo Langreo station is 200 m east, on the Gijón line.

Local buses run hourly from Oviedo to the bus stand 200 m south of La Felguera railway station.

Use the train to get along the valley, for instance to El Entrego for MUMI. You need your own wheels for sights up in the hills.

Taxi firms are Taxi Ciudad de Langreo (+34 985 699999) and Radio Taxi La Felguera (+34 985 680000).

• Felguera town centre is modern low-rise. The Church of San Pedro on Matías Fernández Bayo was completed in 1954. Look out for striking murals on building gable ends.
• 43.3142-5.69061 Capilla del Llungueru is a dinky 16th century chapel 500 m north of town centre. In the 19th century it was re-dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes.
• 43.3091-5.6882 Museo de la Siderurgia de Asturias, Hornos Altos, ☏ +34 985 678477. Sa 10:00-14:00, 15:15-18:30, Su 10:00-14:00. Exhibiting the history of iron and steel in this area, in an old cooling tower. Adult €2.  (updated Mar 2026)
• 43.3006-5.68673 Pinacoteca Eduardo Úrculo, Unión 31, ☏ +34 984 182858. M-F 10:00-13:00, 16:00-20:00. Gallery of art mostly from the Civil War, plus a few contemporary works. Free.  (updated Mar 2026)
• 43.2886-5.6684 San Esteban is an old church at Plaza Gabino Felgueroso 2 in Ciañu. It's originally 12th century Romanesque, but in 1919 was rebuilt in an odd mixture of styles.
• 43.2812-5.68725 Santuario del Carbayu is a Baroque church built in the 18th century.
• 43.2887-5.65316 MUMI (Museo de la Minería y de la Industria de Asturias), Trabanquin, El Entrego, ☏ +34 985 663133. Tu-Su 10:00-14:00, 16:00-19:00. Fascinating museum of the steel industry. You descend a shaft and an underground train takes you to San Vicente mine. Adult €9.50, conc or child €6.  (updated Mar 2026)
• 43.2816-5.62177 Sotón Mine, San Martín del Rey Aurelio, ☏ +34 985 661944. Tu-Su 10:00-14:00, 16:00-20:00. Coal mine with surface museum and long or short trips below ground. Deep tour adult €48.  (updated Mar 2026)
• 43.2772-5.67628 Ecomuseo Minero Valle de Samuño, El Cadavíu, Ciañu, ☏ +34 984 082215. W-Su 10:00-14:00, 15:00-18:00. This was a coal mine, and a train takes you 2 km to enter it. Adult €11, conc €7, child €4.  (updated Mar 2026)
• 43.25363-5.7779989MISSING WIKILINK Mieres del Camino is another former mining town in the next valley west, on Cercanías line C8 from Oviedo. Here the re-invention of the rust belt involves the pilgrim trade: Camino del Salvador is a five-day trek from León to Oviedo.

• Teatro José León Delestal is on Inmobiliaria Setsa, 200 m north of La Felguera station.
• Cine Felgueroso sometimes shows films but is nowadays a general-purpose cultural centre. It's at Dorado 25 in Sama.
• El Camino de San Salvador is a modern invention: it follows an ancient trade route from León to Oviedo, but was never a pilgrimage trail to Santiago. Still it makes for a good five-day hike crossing the Picos de Europa, for about the same physical and spiritual benefit as the longer-established routes. It passes through Campumanes, Pola de Lena and Mieres, bypassing Langreo as it swings west into Oviedo.

The usual supermarket chains are strung along the valley: Alimerka, Dia, Mercadona and more. They're typically open M-Sa 09:00-21:30.

A dozen places serve tapas and trad Asturian fare in town centre.

A score of bars around town centre. Cider is the traditional drink in Asturias.

• AZZ Asturias LangreHotel, Manuel Suárez García 6 (100 m east of Felguera station), ☏ +34 984 887002. Value-for-money chain business hotel. B&B double €80. (updated Mar 2026)
• Hotel Vaqueros is a basic place opposite the bus station at Dolores Ibárruri "Pasionaria" 7.
• 43.3058-5.68671 Hotel Arcea Palacio de las Nieves, Pajomal, ☏ +34 984 282576. Comfy, a bit worn. B&B double €100.  (updated Mar 2026)
• 43.3108-5.69362 Hotel San Pedro, Melquiades Álvarez 81, ☏ +34 985 693211. Central and inexpensive, some street noise. B&B double €80.  (updated Mar 2026)

As of March 2026, Langreo and its approach roads have 4G from Vodafone, and 5G from MasMovil, Movistar and Orange.

• Oviedo has a splendid cathedral.
• Gijón is mostly modern but has a historic centre on its peninsula.