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Venice eventually prevailed and during the early modern period Split remained a Venetian city, a heavily fortified outpost surrounded by Ottoman territory. Eventually, its hinterland was won from the Ottomans in the Morean War of 1699, and in 1796, as Venice fell to Napoleon, the Treaty of Campo Formio rendered the city to the Habsburg Monarchy. In 1805, the Peace of Pressburg added it to the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, and in 1809, after the Treaty of Schönbrunn, it was included directly in the French Empire, as part of the Illyrian Provinces.
Lighting workshop.
Split lighting is where the light is directly to one side of the model, the shadow and light split the face in half.
The São Domingos Mine is a deserted open-pit pyrite mine in São Domingos, Alentejo, Portugal.
This site is one of the surfacing massive sulphide deposits in the Iberian Pyrite Belt, that extends from the south of Portugal into Spain.
The Romans mined in the São Domingos area for gold and silver for about 400 years. Mining stopped here when the Romans left.
In 1854 Nicolau Biava, an Italian miner from Piedmont, staked a claim to the mine; ownership then passing to a French syndicate.
In 1855 mining was resumed, as the international demand for copper grew during the Industrial Revolution.
In 1859 the mining concession was leased for 50 years to an English mining company, Mason and Barry, because of their industrial mining expertise.
The nearby port of Pomarão was inaugurated the same year. Known as Pomaron in England, this inland port was specially constructed on the River Guadiana, which here forms the border with Spain, to serve the mine.
In 1862 an 11 mile (17½ km) railway, of three foot-six inch gauge, was opened connecting the mine to Pomarão. From Pomarão ore was exported, mostly to England, by ship. Pomarão was destroyed in a disastrous flood, December 6-8, 1876, and subsequently rebuilt.
Mason and Barry switched from tunnel mining to open pit mining in 1867. Copper ore was the main product of the mine; in addition, pyrite was mined as a source of sulphur.
About 25 megatons of ore had been extracted when the mine was closed in 1966.
Since closure the mine attracts tourists. Many old mine buildings and the open-cast pit remain. The old mining company headquarters has been converted into a hotel.
These Great Gray Owls have amazing faces .... Seen sideways, they can appear so strange, you wonder if something is wrong with your perception ....