The Almadén Mining Park is the living legacy of the two thousand years of Almadén exploitation. After the closure of mining activity in 2003, the oldest mines in the world whose activity has continued to this day, reveal their secrets.
Mercury, the living silver of the Romans, is shown in the Park in all its aspects, the extraction of its ore, cinnabar, mercury sulphide, its transformation in metallurgical furnaces, its physical and chemical properties, its uses and, of course, its eternal history.
The facilities of the Mining Park, the wells, buildings and facilities are the heart of the Spanish assets inscribed on the list of World Heritage Sites with the name of Heritage of Mercury. Almaden and Idrija.