{"id":29387,"date":"2023-07-25T17:49:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/porto-flavia\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T13:08:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T11:08:49","slug":"porto-flavia","status":"publish","type":"place","link":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/place\/porto-flavia\/","title":{"rendered":"Porto Flavia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The structure at Porto Flavia sits on the<strong> western coast of Sardinia<\/strong>, near Masua, a hamlet in the municipality of Iglesias. It has <strong>two<\/strong> long <strong>tunnels<\/strong> and a <strong>suspended<\/strong> <strong>port<\/strong> on the rocky coast with sheer drop into the sea.<\/p>\n<p>The structure was designed and built in <strong>1924<\/strong> by the engineer,<strong> Cesare Vecelli<\/strong>, who <strong>named the port after his daughter, Flavia<\/strong>. This system meant <strong>the minerals<\/strong> extracted from nearby mines could be transported to the port where they were transferred into the hold of ships using a mechanical arm. This solution <strong>revolutionised<\/strong> the <strong>transportation<\/strong> of the minerals which had been hindered by the rugged coastline and shallow waters. Indeed, up until that point, the minerals were transported on small sailing boats, the \u201cbilancelle\u201d, as far as the warehouse in Carloforte where they were picked up by large ships.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>tunnels<\/strong> dug out of the mountain stretch for around <strong>600 metres<\/strong> and, with the aid of <strong>tracks<\/strong> and <strong>a conveyor belt,<\/strong> transported the minerals as far as Porto Flavia. The view, Pan di Zucchero and the tunnel opening onto the sea can all be admired from here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7979,"template":"","tipologia":[1040],"categoria":[1023],"tematica":[1030],"class_list":["post-29387","place","type-place","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipologia-industrial-archaeology","categoria-architectural-asset","tematica-architecture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Porto Flavia - Idese<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/place\/porto-flavia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Porto Flavia - Idese\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The structure at Porto Flavia sits on the western coast of Sardinia, near Masua, a hamlet in the municipality of Iglesias. 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