A tourist walks among the mountains which form the Médulas, old gold mines in the Roman Empire.
The Médulas is a Spanish landscape environment formed by an ancient Roman gold mining in the immediate vicinity of the town of the same name, in the region of El Bierzo, Leon province. It is considered the largest gold mine in the surface of all over the Roman Empire.
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Location: Las Medulas, Carucedo, Leon, Castilla-Leon, Spain
Photo credit: © Nacho Calonge / Alamy / Afripics
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