{"id":29971,"date":"2023-09-15T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T09:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/former-mining-village-of-seddas-moddizzis-or-asproni-village\/"},"modified":"2023-09-15T13:06:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T11:06:06","slug":"former-mining-village-of-seddas-moddizzis-or-asproni-village","status":"publish","type":"place","link":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/place\/former-mining-village-of-seddas-moddizzis-or-asproni-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Former mining village of Seddas Moddizzis or Asproni village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mining site of Seddas Moddizzis and the adjacent village both lie in the municipality of Gonnesa in the area of Iglesias. The site takes its name from the <strong>Mediterranean shrub<\/strong> found in the area, especially mastic tree, referred to in Sardinian as <em>moddizzi<\/em>; the name literally meaning <strong>Valley of the mastic tree<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The San Giorgio mine stands near the mine of Seddas Moddizzis; indeed, it is an area where mining dates back to the <strong>Roman<\/strong> and Pisan eras. Industrial activity started at the end of the <strong>nineteenth <\/strong>century<strong> under the management of the engineer Giorgio Asproni<\/strong>, who in <strong>1874<\/strong> had the <strong>village<\/strong> of the same name built.<\/p>\n<p>The position of the houses inside the village reflected the <strong>hierarchy<\/strong> on which work at the mine was based: in the centre, the director\u2019s villa and the <strong>Management<\/strong> building with the admin offices, while the <strong>workers\u2019 homes<\/strong> were spread around this as well as the <strong>school<\/strong> and <strong>company store<\/strong>; the <strong>church<\/strong>, on the other hand, was built slightly outside the residential area. The workers\u2019 houses had two rooms, an attic and veranda, while the <strong>director\u2019s villa<\/strong> was much larger with 23 rooms on two floors and a neo-Medieval style central turret.<\/p>\n<p>The site is currently supervised with pre-booking visits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5472,"template":"","tipologia":[1040],"categoria":[1023],"tematica":[1029],"class_list":["post-29971","place","type-place","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipologia-industrial-archaeology","categoria-architectural-asset","tematica-archeology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Former mining village of Seddas Moddizzis or Asproni village - 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\/former-mining-village-of-seddas-moddizzis-or-asproni-village\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former mining village of Seddas Moddizzis or Asproni village - Idese\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The mining site of Seddas Moddizzis and the adjacent village both lie in the municipality of Gonnesa in the area of Iglesias. 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