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Terri Park

Artificial tip from the high 20's of XX century with coal ash and slag from the washing and distilling coals and shales of Calatrava. With a height of 80 meters left to be used in the 60's, when the company closed its Penarroya. In 2008, the City Council in its efforts to preserve and give value to the mining heritage, planning the transformation of this mound in a green area for recreation and leisure of the population. Terri The park was opened in June 2010. There are several theories on its name, possibly of French origin (Terrier, Terril), although the only name by which it could be superseded by that of Terri Mount, Mount of the miners, the mountains of effort.

Fuente Agria

It is the most representative monument of Puertollano.It was not until 1676 when Dr. Alfonso Limon Montero made known the beneficial properties of sour water for various conditions by the literary work "Mirror crystalline waters of Spain." Since then its use is widespread, getting to know all the national context.The prestige achieved by the sour water were to be made bottle labeled "water-ferruginous aciduloalcalino Puertollano" at a cost of 38 cents a bottle in 1894.

Monument to Mining

The monument was built with the idea of immortalizing Puertollano mining roots. He was executed by the sculptor Jose Noja and is located next to St. Augustine bridge, which links the city center with the suburbs mining of "Carmen" and "Las Mercedes". This monument was inaugurated on May 4, 2000. The set is a single piece of bronze whose measurements are 2.7 x 4.5 x 2.3 meters. Represents a group of miners working in a gallery, with a realistic style trying to show two scenes in the same time: the shoring and removal by a picador.

War Memorial at Work

Threat of mining
All mining town unfortunately have to pay a toll in human lives into the bowels of the earth.
Two examples are the accident on October 11, 1953, in which 11 miners were killed in an explosion of firedamp occurred in the "Well Calvo Sotelo," and the October 18, 1958, which killed 12 others and 14 more were wounded in another blast in the same well. No wonder therefore that when the City raised the construction, public subscription, the War Memorial at Work, all the people responded with donations.

Paseo de San Gregorio

It sits on what once was the Ejido or Prado de San Gregorio (common to the neighbors where they were used ages and flocks graze). St. Gregory's name is due to the chapel that stood near the Ejido under the patronage of this saint, protector to the many plagues of locusts that ravaged the land. The Ejido of San Gregorio was transformed into spacious avenues that connected the Fuente Agria with Our Lady of Grace

Paseo de San Gregorio area of "El Bosque".

It contains green areas, playgrounds for children and adults, and underground parking.This area of the ride has three specific areas:
1.The called popular promenade. In the area of the couple, framed by a row of trees on the outer side.
2.Paseo romantic, as it was called when it was performed. In the area of the odd, pergolas, trellises concrete supports and accompanies the walker.
Central 3.Espacio that from the confluence with the South, culminating recently with a monumental fountain and pergola semicircular portico in front of the shrine of Our Lady of Grace.

Park of the Prior Pocitas

Popularly known as "the Charcón of the Ducks" (formerly "Charcón of Pocharra"), is located in the neighborhood of 630. Prior Pocitas became the nineties in a city park ideal for leisure and recreation of the population.This park consists of a lagoon that collects water from two springs, one of which supplies water to the fountain in the interior of the existing small hut at the edge of the lagoon. Both springs autumn when the rains provide water to this small wetland.

Church of Our Lady of Solitude

The temple was located next to the regular route locals taking farmers to go to the fields. In the beginning, the building would be almost surrounded by land with the exception of the Santeria house, which was attached to the enclosure.

Mining Museum Puertollano

The Mining Museum is a museum dedicated Puertollano to the mine and the mining town of Puertollano. The museum is located in the Parque del Pozo Norte, where years ago were the most important mining facilities of the oval north of the mining area.Puertollano is accessed by highway, by bus or high speed train. The museum is located in the Parque del Pozo Norte on the road to El Villar de Puertollano. Local buses from the Paseo de San Gregorio.

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