Ferriere borboniche del Savone
Teano (CE)
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The story
Along the Savone sleep the workshops where the Bourbons hammered the iron of Elba: arches, canals and wheels swallowed by brambles, the industrial archaeology that nobody ever comes to see.
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Abandoned ruins, no laid-out route
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Teatro romano di Teanum Sidicinum
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