Ancient site · Spain · Partial ruin
Las Médulas
Las Médulas is a Roman-era open-cast gold-mining landscape in León, Spain, formed by large-scale hydraulic excavation. The site is defined by reddened pinnacles, steep terraced slopes, cut galleries and surviving aqueduct traces across a wooded valley.
Its prime
AD 100
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in AD 100
What Las Médulas looked like in its prime.
A vast ochre-red, heavily eroded landscape of steep, layered clay and sand escarpments, conical pinnacles and gullied terraces set above a green valley; frequent horizontal cave mouths and man-made ledges scar the slopes. Narrow stone-and-earth aqueduct channels run along precipitous ridgelines. Vegetation—scrub, oaks and chestnut—fills lower ground and contrasts with the warm red of the spoil heaps. Scale is broad and panoramic, with cliffs and hollows rising tens of metres.
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8 places to explore in AD 100.
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