A journey through the mining landscapes of Sulcis-Iglesiente with a simple click. With the aim of immersing yourself, albeit virtually, among the beauties and above all discovering the history of these places, custodians of known memories yet to be discovered.

This is the goal of www.monteponi.it., The new site which, among documents and images, maps and unpublished material, contains years of academic studies carried out by professors and researchers of the Department of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Cagliari- Dicaar.

Stage after stage reveals the encounter between industrial architecture and extraordinary nature, as in Nebida with the Laveria La Marmora overlooking the sea or Porto Flavia in Masua, carved into the rock. The painful memories of Buggerru, then Funtanamare, Monteponi, one of the two great Sardinian mines with splendid historic buildings. And much more.

"A lively archive of ideas and projects of yesterday, today and tomorrow open to the contribution of scholars from all over the world to design together new itineraries in the sign of ecological transition in these deindustrialized places interested in reconversion", underlines Giorgio Peghin, full professor of Architectural composition and scientific coordinator of the Monteponi.it project - Mining landscapes, the result of the collaboration between the Consortium for the promotion of university activities (Sulcis-Iglesiente) Ausi, chaired by Mauro Usai, and Dicaar. A tool for relaunching the Costa delle Miniere brand, a tourist-cultural project born in 2006, a network of six coastal municipalities.

"The goal is to make this site a meeting point for the municipalities of the area - explains Usai - to attract not only passionate and curious travelers but scholars from all over the world. A first step in a wider open-air museum project that wants to systematize with an image and a coordinated management the mining sites that are currently dispersed or difficult to access ".

Through the site, events, conferences, study seminars, workshops, videos will be disseminated. "A continuously updated project - explains Peghin - an opportunity to relaunch numerous other training and design initiatives, starting with the next sixth edition of the international landscape architecture workshop Miner Landscapes, an annual event that welcomes students from Italian and foreign universities".

(Unioneonline / vl)

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