Mesa Maleantes

Luarca, hand Avilés. We are at the top of the fishing district of Cambaral, very close to the
hermitage of the Atalaya where we find the Gothic carving of the Virgen de la Blanca
rescued from the sea by fishermen in the sixteenth century. This is the "Mesa de los
Mareantes y Navegantes", a meeting place for the people of Luarca for more than eight
centuries, specifically here met the "Nobilísimo Gremio de Mareantes y Navegantes de la
Pobla de Luarca" (Noble Guild of Sailors and Navigators of the town of Luarca). They were
in charge of regulating everything related to the fishing trade, and through social benefits
they guaranteed a social care service that included, among others, medical assistance.
Among other decisions, it was decided on stormy days whether the fleet would go out to fish
or stay in port. For this purpose, a boat and a house were painted at each end, where those
in favor of going fishing and those in favor of staying on land were pas grown urbanistically
around its port and is structured by the Negro river, which flows into one of its three
beaches. Seafaring and fishing village since the beginning of time, its port became one of
the most important in northern Spain and the third in Asturias, behind Gijón and Avilés. We
are at the top of the fishing district of Cambaral, very close to the hermitage of the Atalaya
where we find the Gothic carving of the Virgen de la Blanca rescued from the sea by
fishermen in the sixteenth century. This is the "Mesa de los Mareantes y Navegantes", a
meeting place for the people of Luarca for more than eight centuries, specifically here met
the "Nobilísimo Gremio de Mareantes y Navegantes de la Pobla de Luarca" (Noble Guild of
Sailors and Navigators of the town of Luarca). They were in charge of regulating everything
related to the fishing trade, and through social benefits they guaranteed a social care service
that included, among others, medical assistance. Among other decisions, it was decided on
stormy days whether the fleet would go out to fish or stay in port. For this purpose, a boat
and a house were painted at each end, where those in favor of going fishing and those in
favor of staying on land were placed. If the majority decided to go fishing, each one could do
what he considered, but if the majority was in favor of staying on land, they were forbidden to
go out to sea.
never practiced as a physician. During his stay in Madrid he lived in the Residencia de
Estudiantes, where he entered in 1927, and lived with great intellectuals and artists of the
time, such as Federico García Lorca and Salvador Dalí. He won the Nobel Prize when one
of his students, the American Arthur Kornberg, demonstrated that DNA was synthesized in
the human body. Both shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959 for their
respective findings. Margarita Salas was born and grew up in Valdés until the age of 16,
when she moved to Madrid to begin her studies in chemistry at the Complutense University
of Madrid, where she met Severo Ochoa, who guided her towards biochemistry. After
finishing her doctoral thesis, she traveled to the United States

Ayuntamiento
These statues were made in honor of Nobel Prize winner Severo Ochoa and, in principle, his
partner Margarita Salas. Both are examples of the most illustrious Valdesanos. Severo
Ochoa was born in Luarca although soon, at the age of 8, he moved to the south of Spain, to
Malaga. His interest in biology was born largely from reading the publications of the great
Spanish neurologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal. In Madrid he studied medicine and graduated
in 1929 from the Complutense University of Madrid, where he received his doctorate shortly
thereafter, although he never practiced as a physician. During his stay in Madrid he lived in
the Residencia de Estudiantes, where he entered in 1927, and lived with great intellectuals
and artists of the time, such as Federico García Lorca and Salvador Dalí. He won the Nobel
Prize when one of his students, the American Arthur Kornberg, demonstrated that DNA was
synthesized in the human body. Both shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in
1959 for their respective findings. Margarita Salas was born and grew up in Valdés until the
age of 16, when she moved to Madrid to begin her studies in chemistry at the Complutense
University of Madrid, where she met Severo Ochoa, who guided her towards biochemistry.
After finishing her doctoral thesis, she traveled to the United States to work with Severo
Ochoa, where they both produced a large number of scientific articles. During this same
period she developed one of the most profitable patents of the CSIC, that of the DNA
polymerase of the bacteriophage virus Φ29.