Riotinto's mining museum is a figurative goldmine for devotees of industrial archaeology, taking you through the area’s unique history from the megalithic tombs of the 3rd millennium BC to the Roman and British colonial eras, the 1888 año de los tiros (year of the gunshots) upheaval and finally the closure of the mines in 2001. The tour includes an elaborate 200m-long re-creation of a Roman mine.
Within the display on the railways that served the mines, pride of place goes to the Vagón del Maharajah, a luxurious carriage built in 1892 for a tour of India by Britain's Queen Victoria, though she never actually used it.
