Museo Fábrica de Artillería de La Cavada

Six years after the commissioning of the two blast furnaces of Liérganes erected by D. Juan Curcio, the first of the peninsula, his successor, D. Jorge de Bande, built a large factory in La Cavada, which multiplied by six the surface of the existing Liérganes and that includes two blast furnaces that at that time are the largest in the world

From that moment, La Cavada becomes the technical and administrative center of a set of facilities that, over time, will include the Lunada slide, the Liérganes factories, La Cavada and Valdelazón, the Tijero wharf and warehouse, the mines of Vizmaya and Somorrostro, the anchor factory of Marrón and the immense supply of mountains

The economic potential, the growing need for iron artillery, the excellent technicians coming from Flanders and the knowledge of Bande, Neuveforge and Ferrufino, bring with it the fact that Spain, the last power to join this technology, is in the lead of it after a decade

In the 18th century, La Cavada has six blast furnaces (two in Liérganes), four reverberatory furnaces, five cannon borehole machines, and a host of smaller installations