Miniere di Montevecchio 4K Guspini Sardegna

The mining compendium of Montevecchio consists of several mining and processing sites of minerals, a town, home to the main services and headquarters of the management, and some working villages. The extraction activity exploited the homonym Montevecchio lodging: this one, rich of blenda and galena, minerals from which the zinc and the lead are derived respectively, is about twelve kilometers long. The mining compendium of Ingurtosu also insists on the same vein. The Salaponi mine in Gonnosfanadiga also belonged to the same compendium. The administrative center of the compendium is the small town of Gennas Serapis; better known by the name of "Montevecchio", it is placed in a plateau among the highest in the territory. There were the apartments of the managers of the mine and the highest offices at the service of the companies that followed each other in the management of the mine, several buildings with housing for the workers, the building of the administration with attached chapel dedicated to Santa Barbara and other management offices, the most important services, such as the carabinieri barracks, the hospital and the schools, a post office, a chemical laboratory, the geological office, cinema and soccer field, where the local Montevecchio team played. It is currently inhabited by a few hundred people and is a fraction of the municipality of #Guspini, while the houses of Sa Tanca are included in the territory of #Arbus. In the period of maximum mining, the compendium came to count over three thousand inhabitants. East of Gennas Serapis are the Eastern construction sites. These are mainly the construction site of Piccalinna and the Sant'Antonio shipyard. In this part of the compendium there were several workers' villages: among them, the most important is undoubtedly the Righi Village, on the road that leads from Gennas to Arbus. Among the various industrial works, the Pozzo Sartori is worthy of note, inaugurated on the first of June 1941, which develops in depth up to 288 meters below sea level. West of the center of Gennas Serapis are the western construction sites: Sanna, Telle and Casargiu; west of the Casargiu shipyard the Ingurtosu compendium began. The Montevecchio mines were among the most productive in Europe: the extraction activities started from antiquity, finally ceasing in 1991. subscribe on Sardinia's paradise