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Western route by El Transcantábrico Jesús Castañón Rodríguez
At the end of the 19th century, in full time of the building of a great part of the lines were going to be built and the publication of La Regenta, the Olympic dream was also set in motion. In the Conference, 1894 of the International Olympic Committee which meant the restoration of the Modern Era Olympic Games, two Latin-American and education institutions took part: the Colegio Nacional de Uruguay (National College of Uruguay) and the Universidad de Oviedo (University of Oviedo).
The statue of the traveller, with his suitcases full of dreams, hopes…expended a ticket to a dream to enjoy the emotions of the current sport and pay tribute to the delegate pioneers who represented the University as Honor Members - Adolfo Álvarez Buylla- as well as the first Spanish medallist, Pedro Pidal, who was placed second in the clay pigeon shooting category and he was given a pipe as award.
A catalogue of Asturian and elite sportsmen transformed everything into a new scope, field. Olympic diplomas, medallists in the world championships, champions of Spain joined together to live together, travel, sing, become tourists. A modern emigration with a professional which leads all of them to the nooks of the world, it recognized a bit more its Asturias by means of active tourism: mountain cycling, karting and hiking. Previous l Next l General index Traducción: María Elena Martín Pérez
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The sport in Asturias
On the way to the new FEVE (narrow gauge) railway station we went
pass near the old terminal of Jovellanos street, a Basque-Asturian
building which worked from 1906 to 1989. its three tracks through
a tunnel-crossing, the cabs, the coaches made of wood, a turntable
for locomotives and a big flight of steps to access were blended
into the memories of encouraged family stories which came from Oviedo
to go to the matches of the Carlos Tartiere stadium with excitement
and enjoy the developments of Antón, Emilín, Herrerita,
Lángara... 
At the platform, the narrow gauge and the longest train of Western
Europe was waiting for us, El Transcantábrico, ready for
showing a "large window" of irresistible horizons: seas
full of culture and gastronomy or a journey along the legends, art
and literature because it dates back to the novel El Transcantábrico
by Juan Pedro Aparicio and it has given rise to the story-book Sobre
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