{"id":30110,"date":"2023-09-26T09:55:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T07:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/historical-quarry-museum-of-cala-francese\/"},"modified":"2023-09-26T09:55:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T07:55:34","slug":"historical-quarry-museum-of-cala-francese","status":"publish","type":"place","link":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/place\/historical-quarry-museum-of-cala-francese\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Quarry Museum of Cala Francese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 1860, someone outside the island discovered the <strong>advantage of using Maddalena granite for paving roads<\/strong>. The quality of the stone and relative ease and speed of transport by sea as far as Porto Torres made this granite more favourable to the one found in other areas traditionally better equipped for this kind of supply and operation.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>1901,<\/strong> the <strong>Societ\u00e0 Esportazione Graniti di Sardegna (SEGIS) (Sardinian Granite Exportation Company)<\/strong> was founded. The supply continued uninterrupted for thirty years, building bridges, flagstone roads, docks and important monuments such as the one at Ismailia in the Suez Canal.<\/p>\n<p>In the <strong>Historical Museum of Cala Francese<\/strong>, the visitor can explore the <strong>entire mining area<\/strong>. The town where <strong>quarry stonecutters and management<\/strong> lived, the <strong>port with cranes<\/strong> where the sailing and steam ships for transporting the granite docked, the <strong>track system with the quarry train<\/strong> and the area behind the hangar with cranes for loading onto the wagons are all open to the public. It is also possible to see the <strong>cuts made in the rock<\/strong>, with an explanation on the kind of cut made. Lastly, you\u2019ll come to the <strong>hangar-museum<\/strong> where the <strong>machinery<\/strong> is kept along with <strong>photos<\/strong> and <strong>historical<\/strong> <strong>documents<\/strong> about the quarry, made even more interesting by the projection of historical images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":13032,"template":"","tipologia":[984,1084],"categoria":[1024],"tematica":[1032],"class_list":["post-30110","place","type-place","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipologia-museo-en","tipologia-quarry","categoria-exhibition-venue","tematica-traditions-and-history-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Historical Quarry Museum of Cala Francese - 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\/place\/historical-quarry-museum-of-cala-francese\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Historical Quarry Museum of Cala Francese - Idese\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Around 1860, someone outside the island discovered the advantage of using Maddalena granite for paving roads. 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