In the heart of Gij\u00f3n\/Xix\u00f3n, the Paseo de Bego\u00f1a is a landscaped pedestrian space, with rest areas and the characteristic kiosk or music pavilion.
\n Its position is especially interesting: it is halfway between the historic Gij\u00f3n\/Xix\u00f3n and the expansion that made the city grow to the east and south during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
\n The name comes from the Virgin of Bego\u00f1a and an old chapel, but the place we know today as a promenade is the result, above all, of the growth of Gij\u00f3n\/Xix\u00f3n in the nineteenth century. In 1849 work began to prepare the land and in 1857, following a project by the master builder C\u00e1ndido Gonz\u00e1lez, the first urbanization properly speaking as a promenade was carried out. The City Council conceived it as a green space for walking, recreation and social life.
\n In addition, the Paseo de Bego\u00f1a is a magnificent showcase of Gij\u00f3n’s architecture of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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