DescripciónView of the Larderello geothermal field in Tuscany, Italy, as it appears from the village of Montecerboli. The landscape is characterized by the cooling towers of the goethermal power plants and by the steam plumes of wells discharging into the atmosphere. The name of the village derives from Mons Cerberi, in Latin "the mountain of Cerberus", the 3-headed watch-dog of hell. And to the first inhabitants of the zone, Hell probabaly did not appear far away. Most of the hot sulphurous springs and fumaroles disappeared when intensive exploitation of the geothermal fields started.
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