Few Spaniards Know, but the World’s First Visitable Vanadium Mine Is in an Unknown Extremaduran Village

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Santa Marta de los Barros is an Extremaduran town in the province of Badajoz that does not appear even on the list of most visited destinations in Spain. And, of course, its name also does not appear in the most popular travel guides or in the reports of rural tourism that circulate on social networks. And yet, since May 2025, this small Badajocense municipality can boast of a milestone that no other place in the world can snatch it. Under its s…