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Vilagarcía mountain gold mine

Baleira, Fonsagrada, Lugo

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Vilagarcía mountain gold mine

Monument · Baleira, Fonsagrada, Lugo

Image of Baleira, not of the place itself.

Roman gold workings opened on the hill of Vilagarcía, proof that imperial gold mining also reached these mountains of eastern Lugo, far from the great open pits of Las Médulas.

Photo: José Antonio Gil Martínez from Vigo, Spain (CC BY 2.0)

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