Interior visit to the mine

For safety reasons, entry is restricted to a small group of visitors who, equipped with their holster, gloves, minign self-rescue (self-contained breathing apparatus for emergency cases) and safety lamp, drill coal, drill galleries or travel by trains that sometimes run under mountains, more than a kilometer depth from the surface. Given the conditions of the visit, access is limited to the fulfilment of certain physical conditions.

Sotón offers a long visit of five/six hours and a shorter one of two/three hours.

A walk in the bowels of the earth

Before entering the mine, visitors will change clothes, receive a safety briefing and be provided with a mining light and self-rescue equipment.

It will be time to get to the shaft where using the cage the visitors will get down to the mine.

Outside the visitor will see the engine room, the shipper’s cabin, the communication systems used with the interior of the mine and the train tracks (rail yard).

The underground visits will be carried out along the current 8th, 9th and 10th levels of Sotón Mine at a depth of approximately 386 to 556m with respect to the surface. The adventure is a unique experience that has already become a reference for tourism in Asturias.

Long visit

The descent in the cage will start along 386.25 m., until reaching the 8th level. From the boarding point, we will visit the Chimenea La Jota to go down to the 9th level.
At the end the visit reach the tenth floor of the mine. There, the visitor will see an inclined plane that slopes down to the sub-tenth level completely flooded.
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Short Visit

The descent starts at the cage and descends along the shaft along 556 m. to finally reach the 10th level.
From the 10th level boarding area, the visitors will go to see the pump room and the battery room.
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