Atractions: former industries, Glass Factory, National Glass Center Foundation, Navafría Martinete, mills.

Segovia has a varied set of elements related to Industrial Heritage. They have survived to this day as witnesses of a nearby industry, connected to their land.

Examples include mills, hammers, resin factories, sawmills, shear ranches, or wool laundries.

Along with them, the royal factories stand out for their uniqueness, “avant-garde” industries that were royally founded in the 18th century (Royal Glass Factory in the Royal Site of La Granja de San Ildefonso) or in the 19th century (Real Aserrío Mecánico de los Montes de Valsaín).

Despite the proliferation of the royal factories throughout the Spanish geography during the time of the first Bourbons, a clear precedent was already existed in the time of Felipe II with the founding of the Real Ingenio de la Moneda in the Segovian valley of Eresma river.

Precisely in Valsaín, visiting the industrial village, begins the route that is proposed and continues in La Granja de San Ildefonso with the Glass factory, today the Foundation of the National Glass Center.

We will pass by Cabanillas del Monte, to know its shearing ranch and we will finish in Navafría, at the Martinete of the copper foundry, in which its machinery, heir to the medieval technology that has been in use until recently.

If there is a living example of industrial heritage in our province, it is the DYC Whiskey factory founded already in the mid-20th century by businessman Nicomedes García and which is still fully active today.