Miner for a day

Feel like a miner for a day

Adventure | Discovery

Burgos Experience is a personal and private project that seeks to offer the visitor another way to enjoy the beautiful city of Burgos and its incredible province. The idea was born after a man in love with his city, Burgos. He was confident with the multiple opportunities the city could offer. With the maxim of doing things with the heart and from the heart, and aware that everything cannot be covered, Burgos Experience always works and will work so that the proposals that are presented are liked.

This experience seeks to make the tourist feel like a miner for a day and enjoy an acoustic concert in a most genuine environment. Esperanza Mine, an iron ore is the place that carries out this activity, it was active from 1908 to 1973. It was adequate in 2013 to look like a museum. The visit has certain requirements: adequate clothing and footwear, a minimum physical condition, be over 14 years old, and not have claustrophobia. Access is made through a steeply sloping entrance that soon leaves the natural light behind. Inside, rails, wagons, carburetors, holes, or shoring, all original, make up the perfect props for the visitor to feel from the beginning, as we said, a miner for a day. The visit (guided at all times) runs through more than 300m of galleries and descends to level -3 of the mine, more than 200m deep.

After the route the show is ready to begin, the space set up as an auditorium is located in the central part of the mine and has a capacity for 30 people. Once the visit is completed, the participants take a seat in their respective locations, to enjoy an acoustic concert, in a unique place.

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Gustavo Sancidrian Pérez

In 2018 Gustavo put an end to working for others, the love for the city of Burgos, and the need to attract new tourists who could get to know the city from a different and original point of view made him create Burgos Experience.

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Gustavo Sancidrian Pérez

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The experience is transformative from the moment you access the interior of the earth because it is not difficult to put yourself in the shoes of those miners of the last century and wonder what they felt every day after entering into the darkness. How they spend hours and hours alone faced with the hardness of the rock and the future of the mind; how they would be able to vanish their fears, their uncertainties in case they did not see the sunlight again. It is a place to search for our feelings, our insecurities, and, from there, realize what is important in life.

They say that music heals the soul, for this reason, our activity, more than a pick or a shovel, what it includes is a dose of musical notes, interpreted by local artists, in an attempt to consolidate collaborations that help all the activities we develop to be carried out with artists and promoters. This activity is 100% from Burgos, as others that Burgos Experiences offer such as Living Paleolithic, the Atapuerca Region, and the artist or local group.