⛏️ Las Médulas: Zona principal de la mina de oro de Las Médulas
Roman open-pit gold mine in El Bierzo, northwestern Spain, 1st–3rd centuries CE
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- Location: El Bierzo region, León province, northwestern Spain
- Period: 1st–3rd centuries CE (Roman Empire)
- Size: Approximately 2,000 hectares of transformed landscape
- UNESCO inscription: 1997
Las Médulas is a Roman gold mine in northwestern Spain that employed hydraulic extraction technology at imperial scale ...