Museum · Italy · Restored
Porto Flavia
Porto Flavia is a purpose-built sea harbour and loading complex cut directly into the basalt cliffs near Nebida, Sardinia, designed to load ore from cliff-top tunnels into moored ships. The installation consists of two superimposed 600 m tunnels, large vertical storage reservoirs carved into the rock, covered conveyor works and sea-facing tunnel mouths set into the cliff.
Its prime
1924
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1924
What Porto Flavia looked like in its prime.
Porto Flavia at its prime sits carved into a sheer black basalt cliff above deep blue water, two horizontal tunnel mouths framed by low concrete towers and nameplates. The upper gallery runs along the cliff 37 m above sea level with a narrow electric rail; beneath it the lower gallery at about 16 m houses a steel‑cased conveyor and an extensible chute that reaches over moored steamships. Cylindrical vertical reservoirs are hewn into the rock with iron hatches and venting holes breaking the cliff face.
Step inside
9 places to explore in 1924.
The record describes 9 distinct spots at Porto Flavia — including 5 interiors: upper gallery entrance with electric rail, blasting niches along the upper gallery, top of a vertical storage reservoir (hatch) and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.
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The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1924 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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