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Roman fanas of La Freita and Bustantigo

Allande, Narcea, Asturias

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Roman fanas of La Freita and Bustantigo

Nature · Allande, Narcea, Asturias

Two enormous open cuts made by the Romans to tear gold from south-western Asturias: it is reckoned that more than eight million cubic metres of earth and stone were shifted from them, and the collapsed landscape they left still marks these slopes.

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