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This may look like an unfinished bridge, but it's just a bridge that was used for loading minerals to ships. The place is Mega Livadi, at Serifos island, Cyclades, Greece, and it was one of the most important mineral centers of the island, along with Koutalas a few km to the east. Serifos was a very important mining center since the ancient years, and reached its peak in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. The exploitation of the mines during this last period passed from French to German and the last decades to Greek Hands, until the 60's or 70's when they closed. Here in Mega Livadi took place one of the most important uprising in the history of Greek workers movement in 1916. The working conditions under the ...