Ente mining park Floristella Grottacalda
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Ente mining park Floristella Grottacalda

Contrada Floristella, 94100 Valguarnera Caropepe EN, Italy

0935.958105

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The Mining Park Floristella Grottacalda covers a large area situated on the confluence of expressways linking Enna, Valguarnera, Aidone and Piazza Armerina, a few kilometers from the motorway junctions of Whirlpool and Enna. In a remarkable landscape, the area of ​​an equilateral triangle shape with Park, the other two vertices, Lake Pergusa and wildlife-forest reserve of Ronza. In addition, the mining site is located in an area that allows you to take advantage of the cultural heritage and environmental International Landmark (the Casale in Piazza Armerina Roman Villa and the archaeological ruins of Morgantina to Aidone). The Mineral Park Floristella Grottacalda brings together the two namesake of abandoned sulfur mines, and was one of the most expressive settlements of industrial archeology existing in the south of Italy. Like a large open-air museum, the vast mining complex provides a real "stratigraphy" of different ages and related systems and extraction techniques and sulfur fusion.

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