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The closure of the Sagunto steelworks

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The closure of the Sagunto steelworks

Historical milestone · Sagunt/Sagunto, El Camp de Morvedre, Valencia

The closure of the Sagunto steelworks

The industrial restructuring shut down the blast furnace in 1984 and dismantled the steel plant, after months of strikes and demonstrations; the Port lost its reason for being and took decades to find another.

1984

Photo: Diego Delso (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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