Mines Museum

The mine of Montecatini Val di Cecina is an ancient cop­per mine loca­ted about one km from the histo­ri­cal cen­ter. Remained acti­ve until 1907 was during the nine­teenth cen­tu­ry the lar­ge­st cop­per mine in Europe. Here was born the com­pa­ny Montecatini, one of the lar­ge­st European indu­stries, then mer­ged into the famous Montedison.
For visi­tors, it is an oppor­tu­ni­ty for a fasci­na­ting jour­ney to learn about mining tech­ni­ques and the sto­ries of the miners. Today the visi­tor can admi­re the nineteenth-century struc­tu­res rela­ted to mining, the for­mer Laverie, part of the gal­le­ries that can be wal­ked, the for­mer offi­ces of the Management.