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The hamlet of Ingurtosu, which present day is home for a small number of families, was between 1880 and 1900 one of the most populated mining centres of the period. The village developed around the very first extraction yards with the construction of dozens of houses in the proximity of the Maria Teresa pit, later transformed into a post office.
For decades the works, that regarded the entire surrounding area, were run by English and French directors amongst which the proprietor, Lord Thomas Alnutt Viscount of Brassey, stands out, an important character in world mining history.
The director’s building dominates the village impressively defended in the up stream of the quarter, facing the sea; it is original thanks to its architectural particularities of neo-Gothic taste with contours typical to northern buildings.
The quarter’s decline, almost entirely abandoned for several decades now, the remains of the impressive structure used for metal working, the surrounding nature, lush and increasingly eager to reclaim its space, the nearby immense Piscinas beach render Ingurtosu a rich impressive and fascinating place capable of provoking strong emotions within the visitor.
Besides the director’s building, it is necessary to point out the presence of several other mining structures of particular importance on this site: the Naracauli Washery, the Gal pit, the ex hospital that hosts “il Centro di Educazione Ambientale” (The Environmental educational Centre) and the small Santa Barbara church; in the vicinity of Ingurtosu, the mining village of Pitzinurri can also be found.
