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    Discover the mining past of the Val d'Aran in 4x4

    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. The factory was built at the end of the 11th Century by Rafael Portolés Lafuste (1858-1936), a resident of Vielha, who had learnt the trade as an [...]