Mining in Iglesias

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Near the village, there is this curious building, built in 1870. Inside it there was a steam plant, to lift the lead and silver minerals from the galleries below the ground. The miners nicknamed it "Sa Macchina Beccia" (The old machine, in Sardinian language). The plant stopped working in 1940.

Iglesias, Italy

Villaggio Minerario Asproni

A former mining village that now operates as an open-air museum.

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