Industrial Heritage

The neo-medieval preparation plant of Lamarmora is located on the seafront of Masua in Sardinia.

Tirso train station was once a critical rail junction from which you could travel to all corners of Sardinia. Now, it's a no man's land.

150 years of zinc processing have left their mark on Monteponi, Sardinia: the earth has turned red, and the hillsides are garnished with ruins of the Miniera di Monteponi.

For centuries, stonemasons knocked and drilled slates in the quarries of Wales, such as in Dinorwic. This was once the second-largest slate quarry in the world.

In Ressaix, you will still find some relics of railway line 241, which branched off from Leval station to the coal mines in Péronnes-lez-Binche.

A stone's throw from Ostbahnhof station in the German capital, Berlin, you will come across this brick water tower from 1880.

The most original form of public transport can be found in the German city of Wuppertal. The Schwebebahn has been floating above the Wupper River for over a hundred years.

A 941-meter-long aqueduct stretches across the Alcântara Valley in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon.

In the German port city of Hamburg, a complex of neo-Gothic brick warehouses, the Speicherstadt, was built on islands in the Elbe between 1883 and 1927.

With the closure of the Saint-Quentin headframe in 1971, slate mining in Rimogne, France, ended.