09 Apr Gallinaria Mine
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Discover the history of the Gallinaria Mine, an iron-copper deposit active between the 19th and early 20th centuries, with tunnel entrances still visible along the road to Bargone and in Bargonasco....
09 Apr Casali mine
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Explore the Casali mining site, featuring underground remains and possible prehistoric—Chalcolithic—exploitation, potentially contemporary with Monte Loreto in Liguria....
09 Apr Mount Bardeneto mine
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Discover a historic mining complex featuring surface and underground workings, documented in the 16th century and possibly dating back to the Romanesque period....
09 Apr Mount Bianco mine
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Explore the Bonelli Concession, a multi-level mining site active from around 1885, located in an area with confirmed prehistoric occupation at the nearby Sesco site....
09 Apr Molinello mine
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Discover the Molinello site in the Gambatesa Nuova concession, featuring tunnels, open-pit excavations, and industrial archaeology remains, closed in 1995....
09 Apr Cassagna mine
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Explore the Gambatesa Nuova mining site, northeast of Gambatesa, with underground tunnels, compressors, air tanks, and railway sections, symbolizing the local mining history....
09 Apr Bargonasco Hydroelectric Power Plant
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Discover the Bargonasco hydroelectric plant, a unique example of industrial archaeology in the Ligurian Riviera, built by Lorenzo Gardella and bringing electric lighting to Sestri Levante in 1901....
09 Apr Sink & Float plant
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Discover the history of the Gambatesa Nuova crushing and enrichment plant, active from the 1950s using the “Sink & Float” method to process manganese ore....