LOUSAL MINING VILLAGE, GRÂNDOLA

The mine closed the pyrite production in 1988. After the mine closing the village went into decay, but by the 90's, the Municipality of GRÂNDOLA and the Foundation Frédéric Velge started a LOUSAL revitalization program, creating a new territorial specialization based on cultural tourism:

# Museu Mineiro do LOUSAL "LOUSAL Mining Museum", a dazzling organization and an enviable archaic industrial heritage;

# Centro Ciência Viva do LOUSAL "LOUSAL Alive Science Centre", exemplary space for scientific and technological divulgation with several valences.

High quality gastronomy and hotel accommodation are also at our disposal in this wonderful place which, so far as I know, has been annually visited for about 20,000 people, but deserves to be visited for many many more.