Spanish views from a small town

Before the winter and its dark arrives, I tend to do one last long drive. The next one won't be until Holy Week in spring. The sun is shortening his stay, and the night is lengthening her hold. It's not as much fun to see somewhere new only by night. So, I decided to make another long trip into Asturias. A long trip, indeed. It took me three hours to drive to Avilés, the third largest city in Asturias (or the smallest of the three large cities, depending on how you look at it). Avilés is situated at the foot of a peninsula that juts out into the Cantabrian Sea (the Bay of Biscay for some), right smack in the middle of the Asturian coast. It has been inhabited since Roman times, with utensils from the Iron Age found in the area. It sits a little inland, on its own fjord or ría . It was, and still is, an industrial city, and one of the most polluted cities in Europe until the 1990's. It's problem is not the breadth of its industry, but its position in respect to the pre...