❓We are looking for this place #176

Let's continue the challenge! Every week we look for a place in the Pyrenees. By observing the photograph and with the help of the clues, are you able to find out which place is the one we are looking for? If you want to take part by sending us a place, you can send us your pictures together with the clues and the solution to the email address of travesiapirenaica@gmail.com. Each week we will choose one for publication.

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We are looking for this place #176:

Hidden in a dense beech forest, the ruins of this former arms factory are a reminder of the industrial past that once existed in this area.

Tracks:

1. A large forest mass, an iron mine and a river are the three fundamental ingredients that led to its location in this part of the Navarrese Pyrenees.
2. Not far from here there is another very similar and much better known one.

The week before:

We are looking for this place #175:

The walls in the background are unmistakable, we are in the Ordesa valley, in one of those passages once equipped with pegs, which soon attracted the most daring tourists.

Tracks:

1. This route can be considered, perhaps not in the modern sense, as the oldest ferrata in Spain.
2. After overcoming this chimney, we reach the most photogenic section, a series of horizontal turns interrupted by a small, more vertical passage, now equipped with a life line.
3. Its promoter, an English hunter, wanted to avoid detours in his wanderings and to shorten the passage to France through the Gap.