About us · Asturias
At Cowtainers we bring coworking into nature: a flexible workspace in the Bosque de la Zoreda, minutes from Oviedo. Here is what coworking means and why ours stands apart.
We are from a small town, but work took us to live in Madrid, as happens to so many people who cannot find opportunities back home. We missed Asturias: the pace, the air, the quality of life that nature gives and that the city never quite matches, no matter how much you earn there.
The 2020 pause showed us that you can work well from anywhere. And the weariness of so many professionals still working alone from home sparked the idea: why not take coworking out of the city and bring it into the forest?
Co-founder
A mechanical industrial engineer from Lieres. He moved to Madrid at 22 to work at Thyssenkrupp and still works on industrial project commissioning today. Asturias is home, and he wanted the best for it: that is where Cowtainers comes from.
Co-founder
An architect from Pola de Siero. He studied and started his career in Madrid, at the Polytechnic, until he managed to return to the longed-for home soil. He has always felt connected to rural areas, and that was the seed of the idea.
Cowtainers began thanks to the EDP ENTAMA Programme and with support from LEADER funds: backing for entrepreneurs in Asturias municipalities. We applied, we won, and EDP put us in touch with the Ribera de Arriba Town Council, which had long wanted to bring coworking to its municipality.
Together we searched for the ideal site for months, until we found the land of the Fundación Laboral de la Construcción del Principado de Asturias in the Bosque de la Zoreda. From day one they offered their collaboration, and that is how the space you know today was born.
Cowtainers was created thanks to support from ENTAMA and LEADER funds. If you want to know how a rural seat can open doors to grants and contests, we explain it here.
We believe the place where you work shapes how you feel and what you are able to create. That is why we built Cowtainers on three ideas:
Working without stress, surrounded by nature and good people.
Technology and flexibility so starting your project is easier.
We look after the site that has given us so much.
Flexible or fixed coworking, private offices for teams of up to 6 people, meeting rooms and a virtual office if you want to register your company in a unique setting. All with fibre optic, 24/7 access and on-site parking.
Cowtainers has a 5.0★ rating from 54 Google reviews. People who work and celebrate here highlight the setting, the quiet and the personal treatment.
5.0★
54 reviews on Google
Fibre and managed wifi, daily cleaning of commons, bookable meeting rooms, free parking, 24/7 access for eligible member plans, shared printer and coffee area. Private offices add a sound-insulated enclosed room; shared coworking prioritises community and flexible hours.
You arrive in the morning, park next to the building and enter coworking or your office. Between work blocks you breathe forest air on the terrace or walk the trail. For meetings you use La Ribera or another room. When you finish, you close the laptop without switching off lights or paying service charges — that is in your fee.
~7 min by car from central Oviedo (~5 km). From Gijón or Avilés, 20–35 min depending on traffic. Urban bus to Oviedo in ~15 min; 25 on-site parking spaces by car.
The best way to understand Cowtainers is to come and see it. Call 667 50 22 00 or write to info@cowtainers.com.
We are in the Bosque de la Zoreda (Ribera de Arriba municipality), at C. Lugar Alto el Caleyo, 2, 33170 Oviedo (Asturias), a few minutes from central Oviedo. Rural coworking surrounded by nature, easy to reach and with its own parking.
C. Lugar Alto el Caleyo, 2
33170 Ribera de Arriba, Asturias
