Riotinto Mining Park, tour a mine gallery, Victorian house & historic train
In Huelva’s heart, the Riotinto Mining Park invites you on a 5 000-year journey: ride a heritage railway, explore underground galleries, step into a genuine Victorian house, and immerse yourself in the land’s story at its Mining Museum.
Ancient Origins & British Legacy
- Over 5 000 years of mining, revived in 1873 by Río Tinto Company Limited
- Birth of modern Riotinto: English-style neighborhoods built for engineers & technicians in early 20th c.
Mining Museum
Housed in the old company hospital, it chronicles mining’s epic—from workers’ toil to British management and social welfare.
Heritage Train Journey
Board vintage wooden carriages for a 12 km ride to Huelva alongside the red-tinted Tinto River and past disused pits and tracks.
House 21 – Victorian traces
Perched in Bella Vista district, House 21 showcases late-19th-c. décor: period furniture, artifacts, and details immersing you in the lives of early company engineers.
Coords: 37°41′48.7″ N, 6°35′51.7″ W
Peña de Hierro Mine
10 km away, accessible from the museum via guided tours—200 m underground gallery with vantage points over the eroded landscape.
- See NASA experiments for Mars missions, using the river’s acidity as a Martian analogue
Experience the Riotinto Mining Park: a time-travel through industrial archaeology, extreme geology, and Andalusia’s British heritage.
How to get there
Decimal: 37.693611°, -6.596667°
DMS: 37°41'37" N, 6°35'48" O
