In the Bierzo, northwest of the Aquilanos Mountains and near the valley of the Sil River, lies Las Médulas, a fantastic landscape resulting from Roman gold mining. It is probably the largest gold mine dug by the Romans in their empire and is declared World Heritage by UNESCO.
Its reddish image hides a sinuous landscape of mystery. Nobody would say that these steep rocks bury, in their bowels, the gold of the Romans.
The mining stopped centuries ago, the site of Medulas becomes a beautiful landscape, very attractive from the tourist point of view, which is completed by the museum infrastructure of an archaeological workshop. It describes, in detail, the period of full activity of the largest open-air gold mining in the Roman Empire.
The Medulas offer to the visitor, beyond a landscape of extraordinary beauty, the possibility of knowing a curious and complex system of exploitation that the Roman geographer and naturalist, Pliny the Elder, will call 'ruina montium'.
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