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The Flames Raze Las Médulas, a Cultural Landscape Shaped by the Romans

Summary by El Pais
The Junta de Castilla y León has not yet reported the extent of the damage to the World Heritage Site.

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One of the fires destroyed the area of Las Médulas, an ancient Roman mine to open heaven, which has been mankind's heritage since 1997. Still, Benfia defeats Nice (2-0) and continues in front of the Champions.

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The landscape environment known as Las Médulas in the town of León and declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site has been the victim of flames originating in a fire in the city of Yeres. The one that is currently the largest open-air mine in the Roman Empire has suffered the ravages of fire in a season of fires that have spread throughout the Peninsula. You may be interested: Trump orders the US army to use force against cartels on foreign soil This…

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The Junta de Castilla y León has not yet reported the extent of the damage to the World Heritage Site.

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The fire in Las Médulas is one of the worst in the country at the moment. In addition to being a World Heritage Site, it is a tourist area of great importance in El Bierzo, one of the places in Spain that suffers most from rural abandonment. Las Médulas was the largest open mine in the entire Roman Empire. Its scale, the number of vestiges and the degree of conservation of the whole make it an exceptional example of ancient mining, which adds to…

Spain as a whole is burning. I weep for the land of my maternal family, the Palentina Mountain, ravaged by two fires that we had never seen before. For Las Médulas, for Castilla y León for each of the points of Spain affected by the flames. These are the lines that have cost me the most to write. But even in such delicate and sensitive moments as these, it is necessary to do pedagogy. Because we cannot be tolerated to be treated by fools and, wh…

It burns Spain for the four cardinal points, physically, tragically, turning trees, schools and homes into ashes. There are deaths, serious injuries, thousands of people who will never see around the landscape that marks their identity again. The fire has forced to evict 1,700 neighbors in my Lion land in Las Médulas, World Heritage Site; more than 5,500 in the last few hours a little further south, next to Zamora. The flames have demanded to ev…

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Noticias León | Última Hora León, Bierzo y Ponferrada broke the news in on Tuesday, August 12, 2025.
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