Topic: Gijon

Villarreal end poor run

Villarreal recorded their first win in seven games and climbed out of the relegation zone with a 3-0 La Liga win at home to fellow strugglers...
Economic Crisis, a Dilemma for Poor.Economic crises have made the life of people, especially the immigrants somehow out of hand. During my stay in Asturias, I one day went to the port of Aviles to find job. I was there door ...

A Breath-taking Tour of Asturia

The province of Asturias is the Autonomous Community. It is situated right between Galicia on its west and Cantabria on its east. It has been a Christian kingdom stronghold for many centuries, as it battled aggressively with the Moors. Asturias is very ...

Spain - Gijon

HistoryGijon is an industrial city situated on the coast of Asturias in Spain. The town itself has a long history. The oldest material remains are in the form of human settlements that go back to pre-history. As the Roman Empire spread, the ...

Spain free book fair sets sights on belt-tightening

ABOARD THE NOIR TRAIN, Spain (Reuters Life!) - One of Europe's biggest book fairs will aim to bring a smile to Spaniards suffering from belt-tightening by offering more events at the free-entry 10-day festival which begins on Friday.The Semana Negra (Noir ...
Tweet . What happens when robots go green? Mexican artist Gilberto Esparza has created a provocative "Planta Nomada, or Nomadic Plant"--a machine-plant hybrid that carries plants and microorganisms from the famously polluted Lerma Santiago River in Mexico that convert waterborne elements into ...

Asturias

Asturias, officially Principality of Asturias, Spanish Principado de Asturias, comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) and historic region of Spain that is coextensive with the northwestern Spanish provincia (province) of Asturias. The autonomous community of Asturias was established by the statute of autonomy of ...

Jovellanos Institute

Aspects of the topic Jovellanos Institute are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Gijon is the seat of the Labour University, founded in 1955 for the sons of workers, and of the Jovellanos Institute (1797), a commercial and nautical school named ...

Spain book fair battles econ crisis and snobbery

GIJON, Spain (Reuters Life! ) - One of Europe's biggest book fairs this week will have to contend with the economic crisis in Spain as well as its traditional battle to knock down the walls between high- and low-brow literature.Every summer since ...

UK team builds robot fish to detect pollution

Robot fish developed by British scientists are to be released into the sea off north Spain to detect pollution.. If next year's trial of the first five robotic fish in the northern Spanish port of Gijon is successful, the team hopes ...