ROCK SALT MINE OF LUNGRO-COSENZA

The Rock Salt Mine of Lungro (kriponja in arbëreshë language) has been for thousands of years the greatest wealth of almost all the plain of Sybaris. The salt was exported to the whole of Calabria, in parts of Italy and to Europe. Many were workers who trampled the about 2000 steps each day you had to go down the mine.

Since 24 A.D. Pliny the Elder in his "Naturalis Historie" quotes the website, having visited, being stationed with the Roman fleet at Cape Misseno, as properties of Brahalla accounts (current Altomonte) of which Lungro was a feud. The Sibariti and the Romans even then extracted salt and traded the rock salt. Later the Normans briefly used the salt of Lungro and they began to "salt routes" traveling along the trails of the Pollino National Park to the Orsomarso mountains.

In the early 1900s began the ordeal of Lungro field. In 1921 the business was already in decline: only 186 workers and produce about 5000 tons was incomparable with 35000 tons of Sicilian mines. The government November 3, 1976 decided the closure of the mine three days of San Leonardo, the patron of miners.
The structure of the mine, suffered years of neglect. Since 2015, the site is subjected to recovery and restoration.

ROCK SALT MINE OF LUNGRO-COSENZA

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