The evolution of the mining village of Montevecchio from archival sources to museum reconversion

Eleonora Todde

2018-01-01

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Abstract

This paper aims at reconstructing, through key stages, the evolution of the village of Montevecchio mine, located in Medio Campidano. The first bibliographic and archival sources of the nineteenth century will be covered and then we will analyse the records of the Parpaglia Commission (1911) and the Covacivich Commission documents (1953), up to the current tourist conversion. At the end of the text, an appendix will contain the descriptive cards of 25 completely unpublished archival units indicating the description, the chronological references and the current signage, useful for reconstructing the structure of the village from its origin until the 1950s.