Thee is a lovely park in Avilés, called Ferrera Park. It was well used by people strolling or jogging and had that essential for a park – water; in this case a pond by which there were not only geese but a black swan.

Off to the side was a nice parterre garden:-

Complete with fountain:-

You know you’re not in Fife anymore when you see a tree like this:-

Just behind the parterre garden was this painted building:-

As the SS Black Watch left we passed this striking sculpture. It’s by Benjamín Menéndez and is called “Avilés”:-

Face-on view:-

This interesting rock formation sticks out into the Ría Avilés estuary:-

Further out where the estuary meets the Atlantic we could see loads of surfers riding the waves into Playa San Juan de Nieva but they were a bit too far off to photograph.

Corner Deco:-

More corner deco:-

La Voe de Avilés. “Rule of three” in the middle of the balconies. Good railings; and that compass dial above the door is a neat touch:-

Balconied Corner Deco:-

A more moderne style. Springfield:-

There’s a stunning mural of a ship and castellations at upper level here. Art Deco “rule of three” on the corner. I think this was the Play House Cinema:-

Another sunburst door in Avilés:-

Art Deco styling balconies:-

Spanish Style, almost Deco:-

Some buildings in Avilés had wonderful tiling on the exterior. This was in a particularly deco style:-

A more modern take on the deco style in Avilés:-

Verging on Deco:-

The most stunning deco/moderne building we came across in Avilés was this very rectilinear infant and primary school. Colegio de Educacion Infantil e Primaria, “Palacio Valdes”:-

Doorway, note canopy:-

The clock tower and face is great. Note flagstaff – plus “rule of three” in windows on gable end:-

Avilés had a fair amount of Art Deco buildings or at least ones showing some of the style.

This first one definitely qualifies though. I couldn’t fit it in my camera’s frame nor did the photos stitch together. The facade took up three photos :-

Central doorway portion:-

The actual doors were half-sunburst in appearance. Portal 17-A:-

Portal 17-b. Note the reflection of the half-sunburst as compared to 17-A and tiled frieze above:-

Street in Avilés, cinema to right:-

More streets:-

The last above was just off a town square. On the opposite side of the square was a stadium, the Estadio Municipal Román Suárez Puerta, home of Real Avilés C F, now in the fourth tier of Spanish football but which has cahieved the dizzy heights of Tier 2 for a total of 13 seasons, but not since 1992, which was also the season they progressed their furthest ever in the Copa del Rey, Round 5:-

A sign on the stand’s gable end says El Quirinal which I thought at the time was the stadium’s name but is in fact the street’s:-

From (pedestrianised) square:-

In the Museo de la Historia Urbana de Avilés (Museum of the History of the Town of Avilés) there are many exhibits relating to the town’s seafaring and industrial past as an iron manufacturing town as well as demonstrating the town’s expansion.

The town still has industry as can be seen from this photo taken from the SS Black Watch in port:-

There is a large window on an upper floor to the rear of the museum specially constructed to give a view of Avilés’s oldest building, the Church of Los Franciscanos (see a previous post.)

Below are two views of the same old street from different directions:-

This was an old colonnaded market we stumbled across:-

In a small park over the road from the pedestrian access to Avilés from the ship’s berth was a figure of Pedro Menendez de Avilés, a Spanish Admiral of the 16th century.

There were two lovely depictions of sailing ships, one on each side of the statue’s plinth:-

The other side had writing. Modelo de caballeros y patriotas su pueblo y la patria agradecidos le consagran este recuerdo año 1917. (Model of knights and patriots. His grateful people and country, consecrated in this memorial year 1917):-

Spanish style building:-

Highly carved building:-

Centre of above – the Camposagrado Palace, Avilés:-

The town’s oldest building is the Church of Los Franciscanos:-

The photograph below is of a colourful bridge which is the second part of the direct pedestrian access to the Centro Niemeyer from Avilés town and which we used in the afternoon. Another (curved) walkway leading to a small park (once you cross the railway and the road on shore) lies behind. We used that one to get to the town in the morning:-

View of buildings in Avilés taken from the from same vantage point as the photo above. There were men precariously at work on the roof of the building which has blue sheeting on its gable! (just to left of centre of photo.):-

Balconies were a feature of lots of buildings in Avilés. Also spot the street sculpture in the roadway below the yellow/mustard coloured building and the mural beyond:-

As we were walking through the town a local heard us speaking English and kindly directed us to an example of what is apparently a traditional kind of Asturian building. On wooden stilts! It was the only one of its kind we saw though:-

Avilés has lots of old buildings like this church, Parroquia de San Nicolás de Bari de Avilés:-

The City Hall is much more recent though:-