El Franco is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias. It is bordered on the north by the Cantabrian Sea, and to the west by

Tapia de Casariego Tapia (Spanish: Tapia de Casariego) is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the north by the Cantabrian Sea, on the east by El Franco, on the south and west by Castropol. Tapia is al ...

, to the south by Castropol and

Boal Boal (Galician-Asturian: ''Bual'') is a municipality, a civil parish and a town in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias (Spain). It borders north with El Franco and Coaña, south with Illano, west with Castropol and east with ...

, and to the east by Coaña. El Franco is part of the Comarca Eo Navia. The Porcia and Mazo Rivers pass through the municipality.

History

Artifacts from Neolithic Age book an early settlement of the region. Still today rests of Hill forts, in Arancedo as well as in the neighbouring Coaña and Mohias are visible. In the 18th century the old gold mines which are in use until today were found near the embankment castle of Arancedo. During the Middle Ages El Franco was split in the dioceses by

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and

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, the administrative capital was in this time, Castropol. In 1852 the administrative seat was laid to El Franco finally in the Parroquia La Caridad where it is still today. El Franco is the birthplace of Corín Tellado, one of the world best-selling writers in Spanish language.

Demographics

Economy

At the top of the employees lies the Livestock and

Fishery Fishery can mean either the enterprise of raising or harvesting fish and other aquatic life; or more commonly, the site where such enterprise takes place ( a.k.a. fishing ground). Commercial fisheries include wild fisheries and fish farms, both ...

. The milk industry is provided here still with the highest growth, after in the fishing the preventive measures of the EU started to reach. The tourism industry and administrative companies form the second largest position of the employers and the tourism shows the biggest growth of the region. Smaller, commercial companies and production companies are found predominantly in the small industrial parks of the adjoining municipality.

Politics

Parishes A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...

* Arancedo * A Braña * A Caridá * Llebredo * Miudes * San Xuan de Prendonés * Valdepares * Villalmarzo

Points of interest

* La iglesia (Church) de Santa María, built on

romanic The Romance languages, sometimes referred to as Latin languages or Neo-Latin languages, are the various modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin. They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic languages in the Indo-European language fam ...

Basement A basement or cellar is one or more floors of a building that are completely or partly below the ground floor. It generally is used as a utility space for a building, where such items as the furnace, water heater, breaker panel or fuse box, ...

en finished in the 18th century * El palacio de Miudes from the 16th century * El palacio de Fonfría from the 16th century * El palacio de Jardón * La torre (Tower) Valdepares

Fiestas and Ferias

* 24. June - San Juan de Prendones in Valdepares. * 16. July, el Carmen - in Miudes. * 2. August, Santo Ángel in Viavélez * from 8. September on: el día de los Remedios

References

External links

Federación Asturiana de Concejos

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