UNESCO World Heritage · Slovenia,Spain
Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija
Cultural site · inscribed 2012
The property includes the mining sites of Almadén (Spain), where mercury (quicksilver) has been extracted since antiquity, and Idrija (Slovenia), where mercury was first found in AD1490.
Summary from the UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
Photo: Šelštev, Idrija.jpg by No machine-readable author provided. Žiga assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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