Fotografía Patrullera y barco de vela. Horizonte. Seascapes. Patrol boat and sailboat
The Local Port
The El Musel port was built as a result of the industrial revolution that began in the second half of the 19th century in Asturias, based on iron and steel manufacturing and more particularly on coal mining in the central basins of the region.
Right from the start, these two industrial activities were to be
promoted by bankers and native and essentially foreign experts.
Alejandro Aguado, Pedro Duro Benito, Policarpo Herrero Vázquez, José
Tartiere Lenegre, Luis Belaunde Costa, Numa Guilhou, Adriane Paillette,
Guillermo Schulz, Luis Adaro Magro, Jerónimo Ibrán Mulá and Isidoro
Clausel de Coussergues are just some of the most representative names in
an extensive group of industrialists and experts who were the true
originators of Asturian industrialisation. The implementation of these
industries was in turn to promote the progress of trade, the growth of
the main urban centres and the adaptation of new communicational routes
in the shape of roads, rail and ports, introducing a new capitalist
production system into the region in contrast to the traditional
agricultural economy.