Guspini, Montevecchio mine, Officine route

The Officine route runs along the structures that supported mining activities in the maintenance of machinery.
Workshops, Foundry, Forge, Model Room, where the workers were able to adjust and rebuild any part necessary for the mining activity.
The building was built on the old plant of the first power plant dating back to 1901. The ground floor housed the electricians' laboratory and was equipped for the repair of the wide range of electrical machinery present in the mine. On the first floor, however, starting in 1938, the wooden models necessary for the reproduction in the foundry of spare parts of machinery and other metal objects commonly used in the mine began to be preserved, and are still preserved in part today. The workshop for forging and tempering foil, modernized and expanded in 1912, constituted a laboratory of fundamental importance for the construction and maintenance of the metal tools necessary for the mining activity. In this way, blacksmiths perpetuate, in modern mining production, an ancient art that for centuries has characterized this territory. The foundry, dating back to 1885 and modernized in 1912, housed the plants for the fusion of all the cast iron and lead castings of the mechanical elements necessary for the routine maintenance of mining plants and for the construction of new machinery. The furnaces, shapes, molds and other tools for casting are visible. The Mechanical Workshop was founded in 1938 as a building for the maintenance of vehicles. The building was expanded in 1948 to reach its current dimensions. It was equipped with the most modern technical equipment for small and large carpentry work, a sliding bridge crane for the repair and assembly of work machinery and for the normal maintenance of means of transport.

Tag

Structure category: industrial archeology

Content type: Mine
Sites or plants

Usability: Open

Province: South Sardinia

Common: Guspini

Macro Territorial Area: South Sardinia

POSTAL CODE: 09036

Address: SP 66 - località Miniera di Montevecchio

Telephone: +39 070 9760215 +39 338 4592082

E-mail: info@minieradimontevecchio.it

Website: www.minieradimontevecchio.it/officine-montevecchio.html

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Information on tickets and access: For always updated information on all visiting hours and to view other cumulative ticket offers on multiple tour routes, it is advisable to consult the manager's official website. Online reservations can be made at the following link. The tours are guided by G.T. regularly registered in the regional register, access to the routes independently is not allowed. The Workshops Course has an average duration of 30 minutes. The infopoint/ticket office is located in the village of Montevecchio, in front of the management building. Not all areas of the route are accessible to people with reduced mobility. Pets are allowed in the management route, hoping for maximum respect for property and other people visiting. Information on departure times: The departure times of the various guided tours allow them to be carried out in succession, for example starting at 10:15 with the Tour Direction, you can participate in all the other morning tours ending your experience at 14:15. Force majeure may cause the daily schedule of visits to vary. For the departures of guided tours, towards the various routes, contact the Infopoint of the village of Montevecchio in Piazza Rolandi, 2. Guided tours are also available in English, French, German and Spanish. The duration of the visit of a route of your choice is approximately 45 min.; of two routes of your choice approximately 90 min.; of three routes of your choice approximately 135 min.; of four routes of your choice approximately 180 min. There are five structured routes: Palazzo della Direzione, Piccalinna, Officine, Sant'Antonio, Galleria Anglosarda.

Access mode: For a fee

Tickets :

Integer : 5 €, grownups, Officine route .

Reduced : 3.5 €, groups over 20 people, children from 7 to 12 years old, adults over 65 years old, Officine route .

Freeware : 0 €, minors from 0 to 6 years old, all routes .

Services information: Guided tours will always be available in ITA and ENG (except in rare cases of exceptional influx). Guided tours in other languages (FRA-DEU-ESP) will be available upon prior request or subject to daily availability.

Update

31/1/2024 - 13:14

Services

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