Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Inspection shaft at the principal spring of the Convento de Cristo aqueduct, a 16th-century National Monument hydraulic structure at Tomar.

Classified reinforced concrete headframe of 1935 standing at the former Couto Mineiro of São Pedro da Cova, now part of an active mining heritage museum complex.

Surviving iron and timber drainage shaft structure of the Mina de São Domingos, a major copper-pyrite complex now a classified heritage site with active tourism.

Preserved iron malacate headframe over the Poço Viana shaft, now the reception point of the Parque Mineiro de Aljustrel heritage park.

Surviving iron headframe over the Poço Vipasca shaft, a landmark feature of the Parque Mineiro de Aljustrel heritage park in the Alentejo.

Historic coal/lignite mine at Cabo Mondego, Figueira da Foz, one of Portugal’s longest-worked coal-mining sites.

Portugal's only active tungsten mine, continuously operated since 1896 at Barroca Grande, with a mine museum on site and internationally significant mineral specimens.

Closed coal shaft site at Germunde, the last underground workings of the Couto Mineiro do Pejão, closed in 1994, with surviving surface structures on private land.

Former mine shaft of the São João orebody within the Aljustrel complex, part of a nationally classified Iberian Pyrite Belt mining site.

Closed shaft site within the Minas de Aljustrel polymetallic sulphide complex, part of a mine first designated a monument in 1982 and now encompassed by the Parque Mineiro de Aljustrel.