Royal Artillery Factory of La Cavada

The Royal Artillery Factory of La Cavada is a historical military weapons production site in northern Spain. The site includes workshop buildings, foundries, and a neoclassical entrance gate that honors King Carlos III.

The factory was founded in 1622 to produce cannons for the Spanish fleet and fortifications. For more than two centuries it remained one of Spain's most important military manufacturing centers.

This factory shows how people worked with metal and made weapons starting in the 1600s. You can still see the workshops and furnaces where teams labored to create each cannon piece by piece.

The site is open to visitors and displays original cannons from its operational period. You can walk through the old workshops and foundries to see how production techniques were arranged.

The factory received water through an underground canal built specially for this purpose over several kilometers. This engineered system made it possible to operate the blast furnaces and process the large quantities of metal needed.

Location: Riotuerto

Inception: 1622

Founders: Jean Curtius

Part of: Plan Nacional de Patrimonio Industrial

Address: Barrio Real Sitio

GPS coordinates: 43.35191,-3.70853

Latest update: December 8, 2025 20:00