The World´s Richest City - in the 16th Century!
February 22nd 2007 The chance of a lifetime was presented to us with the opportunity to travel to Potosi and visit one of the oldest and most productive Silver Mines in the entire world. Silver was first discovered in 1544 and from then on in the town only expanded, and the mining shafts only got deeper. Until the start of its decline in the late 18th-early 19th century Potosi was actually the richest city in the
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