This museum is located in an old power plant at the epicenter of an important coal-mining area that operated between 1920 and 1971. It was eventually replaced by a new power plant known as Compostilla I and later Compostilla II. The plant was eventually abandoned, although it remains an important relic of Spanish industrial heritage. The current museum, La fábrica de Luz – Museo de la Energía (Light Factory-Energy Museum), is focused on the important role coal played on the lives of residents from Ponferrada and El Bierzo. Opened in…
