L'Entregu ( es, El Entrego, "the Hand-over") is a town and urban center in

San Martín del Rey Aurelio San Martín del Rey Aurelio ( Asturian: Samartín del Rei Aurelio) is a municipality of the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain. There are three main towns in the municipality: Sotrondio, El Entrego, and Blimea, ...

, Asturias, Spain. In September 2007, by a decree of the Principality of Asturias, L'Entregu joined the adjacent

Sotrondio Sotrondio is a town in San Martín del Rey Aurelio, Asturias, Spain. In September 2007, by a decree of the Principality of Asturias, it joined the adjacent El Entrego and Blimea to form a single population center, San Martin del Rey, as a homon ...

and

Blimea Blimea is the most eastern parish of the San Martín del Rey Aurelio council. By Decree LAW December 2007, the town of Blimea joins El Entrego and Sotrondio to form the town of San Martin, being the town of Blimea one of its districts. Blime ...

to form a single population center of San Martin del Rey name Aurelio as a homonymous municipality. In 2008, legislation was passed that established the official name of the town as bilingual, being thereafter known as L'Entregu. According to the Gazetteer of 2009, the population was 7,346 in L'Entregu and the combined population within the

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...

of Linares was 9,177. The towns contains a main urban grid layout and several adjacent neighborhoods. The entrance to the town is known as the neighborhood Fradera (also Fielato). Landmarks include Park La Laguna and Iglesia de San Andrés. The

Mining Museum of Asturias Mining Museum of Asturias (: Museo de la Minería de Asturias, MUMI) is located in El Entrego, San Martín del Rey Aurelio, Asturias, Spain. MUMI opened in 1994. The complex includes the information on mining activity that developed in the coalfi ...

is located in the San Vicente neighborhood; it is the second most visited museum in Asturias. Nalón Road runs parallel with

Nalón River Nalón can refer to: * Nalón (Asturian comarca), in northern Spain * Nalón (river), a river in the comarca * Muros de Nalón Muros de Nalón ( Asturian: ''Muros'') is a small coastal municipality in the Spanish province of Asturias, with an a ...

L'Entregu CF L'Entregu Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football club based in El Entrego in the autonomous community of Asturias. History L'Entregu CF was founded in 1997, as an heir to both UD El Entrego and El Entrego CD. After several seasons in Regional Div ...

is the local football club.

Notable people

Graciano Antuña Graciano Antuña (1903, El Entrego, Asturias – May 13, 1937) was a Spanish union socialist politician. He participated in the direction of the Alianza Obera committee during the 1934 revolution in Asturias. He was President of the Asturian Soc ...

(1903 - 1937), Spanish union socialist politician.

Gallery

File:El Entrego (San Martín del Rey Aurelio) - Iglesia de San Andres 00.jpg, Iglesia de San Andrés File:El Entrego (San Martín del Rey Aurelio) - Museo de la Minería y la Industria (MUMI) 08.jpg, Mining Museum of Asturias File:El Entrego (San Martín del Rey Aurelio) 07.jpg, Parque de La Laguna

Footnotes

Bibliography

*Javier Rodríguez Muñoz; Severino Antuña González. "Entrego, El/L´Entregu", ''En Editorial Prensa Asturiana'', S.A.. Diccionario Geográfico de Asturias. Ciudades, Villas y Pueblos. Oviedo. pp. 372-374. Depósito legal V-4734-1998. (in Spanish) *Consejería de Cultura, Comunicación Social y Turismo (7 de febrero de 2007). "Decreto 3/2008, de 23 de enero, por el que se determinan los topónimos oficiales del Concejo de San Martín del Rey Aurelio". ''Boletín Oficial del Principado de Asturias'' (Imprenta Regional) (31): pp. 2347-2353. Consultado el 20 de julio de 2010. *Sociedad Asturiana de Estudios Económicos e Industriales. "Nomenclátor de entidades de población de Asturias 2008". ''Consultado'' el 20 de julio de 2010.

External links

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