Fonte: Cuadernos de Turismo; No. 21 (2008): Enero - Junio; 9-31
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Resumo: The official inauguration, in January of 2008, of the Mining Park of Almadén supposes the end of a process of revaluation of the mining and industrial heritage to the mining of quick silver in the town of Almadén in the southwest of the province of Ciudad Real (Castilla-La Mancha). A museum of great singularity, guaranteed by the Institute of the Spanish Historical Heritage (Ministry of Culture), that allows the visitor to descend to a real mine, to contemplate a material heritage of great value, sometimes unique in the world, as it happens with the furnaces of distillation, and to know the mining culture like part the immaterial heritage. This initiative supposes an alternative for the development in a mining river basin that expire because it has paralyzed its extractive activity in 2001 and two years later, in 2003, has closed its metallurgical activity.
