Sardinia
A limestone massif twenty kilometres long: that's all it took to attract lime factories and quarries to the island of Sardinia.
Lime kiln
For more than half a century, this lime factory's four kilns produced 180 tons of lime per day, but today, the complex stands alone in a forest near Aachen, Germany.
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