About Us
PUBLIC FOUNDATION SERIFOS
HISTORICAL MINES
The Foundation “Serifos Historical Mines” is being established to highlight the mining history of Serifos.
The under creation non-profit foundation aims to protect and highlight the mining cultural heritage and history of Serifos, including the industrial buildings and the infrastructure that once belonged to the Societé des Mines de Sériphos et de Spiliazeza au Laurium and which, according to the Official Gazette of the Ministry of Culture, have been classified either as monuments or as historical places and are under protection.
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The goals of the foundation
The creation of two open-air mining parks at the Mega Livadi and Koutalas, in the context of which two main tunnels will be maintained and highlighted, connecting the areas of Kalogeros with Mega Livadi and Malliadiko with Koutalas.
Study and restoration of the thermal baths, the thermometallic springs of Almyros, near the village of Mega Livadi.
Our vision
Study and restoration of the thermal baths (salt springs of Almyros) in the area of Megali Livadi.
The creation of a website with information about the mines, historical, photographic and bibliographic material, including the digitized archive of the French company Societé des Mines de Sériphos et de Spiliazeza (au Laurium), from which the lands of this project were acquired.
Temporary exhibitions of contemporary / modern art, visual installations, cultural events, concerts, theater performances and more.
- Study
- Restoration
- Implementation
The Agency’s vision includes the mapping and recording of the tunnels’ network, their maintenance and their accessibility to the public, either in the form of an interactive museum for all or as a specialized field of action for relevant schools / faculties in Greece or abroad for metallurgy workshops, research missions, summer schools, conferences, educational tests-experiments, etc.
The mining tunnels in abundance at the south-west part of Serifos are suitable to potentially be used as innovative natural tools of energy production or energy storage tanks (storage of green energy, housing and cooling of PC servers, cooling of homes, etc)
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ΥπέυθυνοςThe Foundation's immediate goal
The Foundation’s immediate goal is to set a study for the restoration of the loading bridge in Mega Livadi which is in extreme danger due to the high degree of erosion and to implement it after the proper research and survey.
A sustainable form of buildings construction is also proposed, which will follow the historical architectural patterns of the buildings that served the mines.
In the context of the creation of small protected marine areas (fish-banks) but also the development of diving tourism, the Foundation aims to the creation of a diving park, where the submerged remains of the loading ladders of Koutalas and Mega Livadi will be accessible. An underwater museum with works of contemporary art by local or international artists is also foreseen.
