Industrial Heritage

Instead of cars and trucks rushing by, grass, trees and shrubs grow on the A103 highway in Berlin's Schöneberg.

Sardinia's soil is full of minerals, which was no different in the hills near the village of Gonnesa. In the mid-19th century, some entrepreneurs discovered zinc ore there.

Although the ruins of Sa Macchina Beccia resemble a fairytale castle from a distance, with their battlements, tower and round-arched windows, appearances are deceptive.

A limestone massif twenty kilometres long: that's all it took to attract lime factories and quarries to the island of Sardinia.

During the twentieth century, the Tejo thermoelectric power plant was essential for developing the Portuguese capital, Lisbon. It supplied electricity to the electric tram, street lighting and factories in and around Lisbon.

The city of Carbonia emerged in a completely remote area of Sardinia in 1938. It wasn't easy to imagine a more striking name: everything here centred around the coal mine, the first thing one sees upon entering the city.

A deathly silence blows through the streets of the mining village of Asproni. Halfway through the twentieth century, the last resident closed the door behind him.