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Gijón City Council is 181,7 square kilometres and is located in the centre of the wide Asturian coastline. Its uneven shoreline contrasts with the smooth inner relief, with a maximum 672 metres height above sea level.
“ Gijón is in a privileged geographical position on the Asturian map, a few minutes away from Oviedo and Avilés through “Y” motorway, the main thoroughfare of the Asturian metropolis, only half an hour away from the Asturias airport and the coal mining municipalities. Gijón centre has the shape of an amphitheatre framed by the huge San Lorenzo sands, the main beach in the borough. Along with it, the reclaimed Poniente and Arbeyal beaches, and the classical ones such as El Rinconín, Peñarrubia, Serín, La Cagonera and La Ñora, which is almost on the border of the neighbouring borough called Villaviciosa “