Cultural Routes

Minas de Almadén y Arrayanes S.A., MAYASA / Minas de Almadén y Arrayanes S.A., MAYASA [Mining]

Cultural Route

• European Route of Industrial Heritage

Country

• Spain

Member Category

• Museum
• SME
• Heritage Site

Member Status

Individual

Year of Accession to Membership

N/D

Contact Details

Cerco San Teodoro, s/n
ES-13400 Almadén

Tel: +34 926 265 000
Website: www.mayasa.es
Email: reservas[at]mayasa.es

Parque Mineiro de Almadén (Almadén Mining Park)
Cerco San Teodoro, s/n
ES-13400 Almadén

Tel: +34 926 265 002
Website: www.parqueminerodealmaden.es
Email: mayasa[at]mayasa.es

Contact Person

N/D

Main Town/Region

Almadén (Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha)

Site Town/Region

Almadén (Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha)

Main GPS Location

38.775275, -4.842998

Site GPS Location

38.775275, -4.842998

UNESCO World Heritage List

Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija (2012) (whc.unesco.org/en/list/1313)

European Heritage Label

N/D

Other Heritage Labels

UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List: Mining Historical Heritage (2007) (whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5139)

Description

MAYASA's main activity focuses on the promotion of industrial, tourist and cultural projects – such as the recovery and maintenance of the Company's historical heritage - and the implementation of initiatives for the development of research projects and new technologies related to mercury.
The Almadén Mining Park is the living heritage of the two thousand years of Almadén mercury mining exploitation. Mercury is shown in the Park in all its aspects, the extraction of its mineral, cinnabar, mercury sulfide, its transformation in metallurgical furnaces, its physical and chemical properties.
The Almadén Mining Park is an Anchor Point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.

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