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Las Médulas
Las Médulas is a former Roman gold-mining area near Ponferrada in the province of León, in north-western Spain. From the 1st century CE Roman engineers brought water through long canals and used it to collapse whole hillsides, a method Pliny the Elder called ruina montium. The eroded red landscape left behind has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997.
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