![]() ![]() The Museu del Pueblu d'Asturies, Museum of the People of Asturias in the town of Gijon, features a center of traditional music, and a Bagpipe Museum, the Museo de la Gaita. Musical instrument is the Gaita, or bagpipe. The folklore of the area shows its Celtic origins, and the traditional The Asturian language is understood by around 60% of the population, and spoken by around 30%, with a strong movement towards learning it again for the last 35 years or so. Asturias has a little more than a million inhabitants. Another important town is and the industrial center of Avilés. The Principality's capital city is Oviedo, an old mining town, but the city with more inhabitants is the port of Gijón. Asturias is a Celtic region of northern Spain, and an autonomous principality with regional government, which lies between the other Celtic area of Galicia to the west, and Cantabria to the east.įacing the rugged Cantabrian Sea ( Mar Cantábrico, the Spanish name for the Bay of Biscay), with a seaboard of 320 km, the ancient kingdom is a country of green mountains, rising to 2600 meters. ![]()
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