Historical Sites

The entire history of the island is linked to the mines, dating back 8 thousand years.
All successive civilizations and peoples on the island have exploited the mines.
It is a story that begins with the obsidian trade, continues with the processing of bronze and lead in the Nuragic age, and passes from the Punics, Romans and Pisans, up to the realities still active today.

This Park encapsulates the millennia-long history of mining activities and propels its territories towards a future of resource reconversion and memory recovery.

True monuments to industrial mining archeology can be observed within the 8 areas that make up the Park: from the old workers' homes, to the management buildings, from the accesses to the mines, to the washery (metal treatment plants), the wells, the bridges, the tracks for the trolleys, in some cases the trolleys themselves, the small churches, first-aid station (given the remote locations, all essential services had to be available).

These are testaments to a truly important historical legacy, one that deserves to be protected and in many respects restored, in order to breathe new life into a fascinating mining history whose extraction activities have played a significant role not only regionally but also nationally and internationally.