TOUR TO THE MINES OF SILVER

Programa

TBPT 023:
TOUR TO THE MINES OF SILVER

Daily Departure: 08:00 - 13:00 hours

Departures: 08:00am. Picking up of the hotels.
Visit:
Market of Miners, you can observe the diverse materials that the miners use and turn to buy leaves of coca, cigarettes, alcohol and dynamites for a gift to the miners.
Refinery of minerals "geniuses", here we will be able to observe the process of the minerals.
It includes:
Transport, Bilingual Guide, Equipment for the visit to the mine "Jacket, pant, helmet, headlamps"

VISIT TO THE MUSEUM OF THE HOUSE OF CURRENCY
Without a doubt, it is the most important building in the colonial architecture in South America. Its construction began approximately in 1750, being concluded in July 31st 1773. Its manufacturer and architect was Don Salvador de Vila that had projected and built the Houses of Currency in Mexico and Lima.
The collections of furniture, fabrics, regional suits of numismatics, anthropology, offer to the visitor and the specialist many cultural opportunities.
The lamination machineries are remarkable with their three groups of wooden engagements brought from Spain, the enormous cedar beams that support floors and roofs, the elliptic dome, where this the main oven of silver foundry. We should highlight the file mainly where they stay those of 80.000 unpublished documents, relative to the life in Potosi. The collection of stamps and dies are important. The big mask that today characterizes the House of Currency, it is only a grotesque addition, placed to the beginning of the war of the Independence, it probably covers a real shield

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