Going up by funicular

This peculiar funicular railway is comparable to a motorised continuous cable ‘inclined plane’, like those used to transport iron.

Its historical value and design are remarkable and have made it a symbol of identity of the area’s mining past.

Peñas Negras Labyrinth

To round out the trip to both La Arboleda and the Basque Country Mining Museum, we invite you to head to Ekoetxea Meatzaldea.

It's an environmental information centre where you can learn the keys of the transformation of the environment due to human industrial activity from an environmental perspective.

It has two headquarters: the one in Gallarta, at the bottom of the Bodovalle Mine, and the one in Peñas Negras, close to the mining town of La Arboleda, where you’ll be able to embark on this route through a place that was drastically changed by human beings as a result of mining operations.

Local cuisine

The Enkarterri region boasts some truly fascinating and distinctive culinary specialities.

Although we’ll be talking later about the “putxeras” (traditional railway workers’ stew pots) used by the railway workers on the La Robla line, in La Arboleda you simply mustn’t miss out on some excellent beans served with all their “sacramentos” (traditional meat accompaniments).

Elsa’s cheese dairy in the La Arboleda neighbourhood is renowned, where you can buy fresh cow’s milk cheeses directly from the producer. The Karrantzana sheep’s milk cheeses also come from this area.