One of the main attractions of a future project to increase the value of this Cuevan mining heritage would be the Tres Pacos Mine’s calcination furnaces.
It is one of the conclusions that Juan Antonio Soler (Friends of the Bedar Mining Heritage Association) and Christian Hisbch (Departement Geosciences Faculte des Sciences et Technologies of the University of Lorraine) presented to Antonio Gonzalez Jodar, Mayor of Cuevas del Almanzora and Maria Isabel Ponce, Councilor for Culture and Tourism.
This report is a result of the final year project by French students Anais Grrange and Jean-Charles Fidalgo. Through a collaboration agreement, both were in Cuevan last summer. With the assistance of Hisbch and Juan Antonio Soler as tutors, the young people performed the necessary measurements and worked to create a topography for the mine and a geological analysis. They also explored the potential of this heritage. Cave at the tourist level.
The visit to the calcination furnaces battery would be the main attraction, as can be seen from the first study. The report states that the Los Tres Pacos oven batteries is in a better condition of conservation. It has more original elements and has the advantage of being close to facilities and possible underground galleries. .
There is not a battery of calcination ovens in the province. They propose to “rehabilitate and enhance with the reconstruction and rebuilding of the upper loading pathways, rebuilding those from all ovens and connecting them, and installing information panels about their operation.” Interconnecting the walkways from the various ovens would create an even more original route, especially if the visitor is allowed to descend to the entrance to enter them (via a spiral staircase or something similar).
Even more, the report mentions the possibility of a complement to a visit inside one of the mines, as well as the enhancement of another exterior building. This would give the whole, already attractive, a sense of activity and interpretation, including guided tours, performances, routes, lighting, and even lighting.
Antonio Fernandez, Cuevas del Almnzora’s mayor, thanked both students and their coordinators for their efforts. This activity also opens up the possibility of academic tourism and improves local mining and geological sites.
Inviting the French University and Solery Gonzalez, the first mayor invited them to remain on the City Council for future student stays.
