Las Médulas
Las Médulas is a historic gold-mining site near the town of Ponferrada in the comarca of El Bierzo. It was the most important gold mine, as well as the largest open-pit gold mine, in the entire Roman Empire.
Photo: Frayle, Public domain.- Type: Locality
- Description: cultural property in Borrenes y Carucedo, Spain
- Postal code: 24442
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castro de Orellán and Casa del Parque de las Médulas.
Castro de Orellán
Archaeological site
Casa del Parque de las Médulas
Tourism office
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Las Médulas and Salas de la Ribera.
Salas de la Ribera
Hamlet
Las Médulas
- Categories: mine, monument, and archaeological site
- Location: Carucedo, Leon, Castile and León, Central Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.45842° or 42° 27′ 30″ north
Longitude
-6.76844° or 6° 46′ 6″ west
Elevation
732 metres (2,402 feet)
Open location code
8CJMF65J+9J
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Las Médulas” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لاس مدولاس”
- Armenian: “Լաս Մեդուլաս”
- Asturian: “Las Médulas”
- Basque: “Las Médulas”
- Catalan: “As Médulas”
- Catalan: “Las Médulas”
- Catalan: “Les Médules”
- Catalan: “Les Mèdules”
- Catalan: “Monument Natural de las Médulas”
- Chinese: “拉斯梅杜拉斯”
- Croatian: “Las Médulas”
- Czech: “Las Médulas”
- Danish: “Las Médulas”
- Dutch: “Las Médulas”
- Esperanto: “Las Médulas”
- Finnish: “Las Médulas”
- French: “Las Médulas”
- Galician: “As Médulas”
- Georgian: “ლას-მედულასი”
- German: “Las Médulas”
- Greek: “Λας Μέδουλας”
- Hebrew: “לאס מדולס”
- Hindi: “लास मेदुलास”
- Hungarian: “Las Médulas”
- Indonesian: “Las Médulas”
- Italian: “Las Médulas”
- Japanese: “ラス・メドゥラス”
- Lithuanian: “Las Médulas”
- Luxembourgish: “Las Médulas”
- Malayalam: “ലാസ് മെഡുലാസ്”
- Maltese: “Las Médulas”
- Persian: “لاس مدولاس”
- Polish: “Las Médulas”
- Portuguese: “Las Médulas”
- Russian: “Лас-Медулас”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Las Médulas”
- Slovak: “Las Médulas”
- Slovenian: “Las Médulas”
- Spanish: “Las Médulas”
- Spanish: “Monumento Natural de Las Medulas”
- Spanish: “Monumento Natural de las Médulas”
- Swedish: “Las Médulas”
- Turkish: “Las Médulas”
- Vietnamese: “Las Médulas”
- “Las Medulas”
- “Las Médulas”
- “Las Médulas World Heritage Site”
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