Sulfure mines in Sommatino

Collection title

Tgr Montagne

ID

RAI00342

Source

RAI (IT)

First broadcast date

05/21/2010

Production year

2010

Abstract

Claudia Pregno presents Sommatino a city in Sicily, and its famous sulfur mine, now closed. Interview with a former miner, Salvatore Pecoraro, who started work there in 1961. He testifies of the great mining activity of those years and the difficult life of the inhabitants of Sommatino. The program continues with a visit to the museum "solfare". Photographs and archival footage illustrating the activity of miners working in the extraction of sulfur.

Type

video

Production companies

• RAI - Own production

Broadcaster

RAI - RAI Due

Audiovisual form

Magazine

Primary theme

Industry, energy

Secondary themes

• Historical heritages

Credits / Cast

• Pregno Claudia - Speaker
• Mangano Girolamo - Author of original work

Period of events

• 1961

Map locations

• Italy - Islands - Sicily

Original language

Italian

Media running time

5m10

Additional information

Archival images and photos in black and white on the work in the sulfur mine