view las dulas considered the largest open pit gold mine entire roman empire |
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| Located in El Bierzo, northwest of the Aquilano Mountains and next to the Sil River Valley, Las Médulas is an impressive Spanish landscape environment formed as a result of Roman gold mining.Considered the largest open-pit gold mine in the entire Roman Empire, the engineering work carried out to extract the gold considerably altered the environment of the area, resulting in an unusual landscape of reddish sands covered with chestnut and oak trees. |
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