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Mines of Os Biocos

San Xoán de Río, Terra de Trives, Ourense

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Mines of Os Biocos

Monument · San Xoán de Río, Terra de Trives, Ourense

Four open-pit mining cuts opened in antiquity in the Sierra de Cabanas to extract gold, the largest about seventy meters in diameter; they form one of the most legible Roman mining landscapes in the comarca.

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