Industrial patrimony
From a farming and forest based economic structure, the Val d’Aran knew how to develop new productive cycles that were interesting both in the mineral and textile industries.
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- The Val d´Aran was at one time strictly a area for mineral extraction. At the beginning of the 20th century the zinc expoitation began in the area of Arres and Bossost.
- En la Val d’Aran y en el conjunto de las tierras pirinencas el aprovechamiento del caudal del rio se utilizó durante muchos siglos como fuente de energÃa.
- The wool factory of Vielha is a representative example of the small textile industries that emerged halfway through the 19th Century on both sides of the central Pyrenees