Come and discover a natural paradise in the Bierzo region.
... ideoque do et concedo tibo dotem sive arras, scilicet villam illam, que dicitur Molina sica, cum omni directo suo, et morabitinos viginti aureos.
El Conde Ramiro Froilaz da en arras a la condesa doña Elvira la villa de Molinaseca 1168, mayo 15.
In Roman times, Molinaseca already had an urban organization due to its importance as a mining center, as evidenced by the discovery of some subway workings in the vicinity of the old pago de Santa Marina, corresponding to a Roman mining operation, possibly from the first century.
Centuries later, a hermitage in honor of Santa Marina was erected in that place.
From the 12th century onwards it underwent an accelerated economic development with the rise of agriculture, livestock, crafts – linked to the old trades, such as tailors, shoemakers, carpenters, blacksmiths, etc. – and the small industries of mills, ovens, and forges.
This economic development was linked to urban development with new settlers coming from different parts of the peninsula and even from beyond the Pyrenees.
Come and discover a natural paradise in the Bierzo region.