The old mine is now a park open to visitors.
Known since the Middle Ages, after more than forty years since its closure, the Calceranica pyrite mine is now an open and visitable park: it was an important economic resource for the community in the twentieth century, up until 1964, and today it has resumed a role of interest. The creation of the park, inaugurated on July 29, 2008, is also a way to remember the people who worked there, some of whom lost their lives. The gallery setup is characterized by the presence of mining civilization equipment and materials, which create a structured and modern thematic path made in collaboration with the Trentino Museum of Natural Sciences.
The mine entrance is not far from the center of Calceranica. The entrance point of the Leyla gallery, the main one, is located in a larger area once entirely dedicated to processing the extracted material. The network of galleries, about forty kilometers long, spread through the mountain’s core, reaching beneath the villages of Bosentino and Vattaro, and is currently largely inaccessible and unexplored. The restoration work focused on the heart of the mining area and revived only some of the areas that for centuries were the center of all extraction activity of the Mandola pyrite veins. A reception-information point and an exhibition-museum area were established, restoring a building near the Campregher settlement.
Information about Calceranica Mining Park
Via Miniera
Calceranica al Lago (Trento)
800 911 778
info@minieracalceranica.it
https://www.visittrentino.it
It is recommended to contact the Park for visiting hours information
Source: MIBACT
