This Wednesday I got a surprise on Arag\u00f3n TV, a regional television channel that I had never seen until now (I live in Galicia).<\/p>\n
My surprise was to find that on that channel they broadcast a program dedicated to urban exploration, titled \"Lugares Olvidados, Arag\u00f3n Urbex\"<\/a> (Forgotten Places, Arag\u00f3n Urbex), produced by SinPalabras Creativos<\/a> and presented by journalist Adri\u00e1n Buenaventura. On this topic, which has gained many fans in recent years, until now I had only seen one program on television, but made in the United States, titled \"Abandoned Engineering\"<\/a> and which is broadcast in Spain on the DMAX channel.<\/p>\n Arag\u00f3n Urbex has a high quality production that is very reminiscent of that of<\/strong> Aventuras Entresierras<\/a> (my favorite YouTube channel), but with the advantage, of course, of having the means of a public television channel. My surprise was to find out today that Arag\u00f3n Urbex has its own YouTube channel<\/a>, in which they have been publishing content for three months.<\/p>\n The program I saw this Wednesday is about the Aliaga Thermal Power Plant<\/strong>, in the province of Teruel, a huge building that was the most important thermal power plant in Spain at the time. It was built in 1949 and inaugurated in 1952, taking advantage of the Aliaga coal mines<\/strong>, having enormous boilers 76 meters long and 36 meters high. The fate of this plant was linked to that of those coal mines and when these were exhausted, the plant ended up closing in 1982<\/strong>. The Arag\u00f3n Urbex program shows this colossal abandoned building inside and interviews some of its former workers (the video is in Spanish, you can activate the automatic English subtitles in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n
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