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Bucharest, Jul 30 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Robert Ghemet) Catalin Cenusa has gone from rescuing miners trapped below the ground of Romania’s coal belt to rescuing the region’s cultural heritage. Sporting the same orange jacket he used to wear for work, he guides a group of visitors around the Petrila mine, which closed in 2015 after more than a century and a half of activity. FOOTAGE OF MINES IN THE JUI VALLEY.SOUNDBITES OF:Dana Bates, from New Horizons (in English).Catalin Cenusa, Petrila mine curator:"This room was created as a meetings room and will a concerts and recreation space. In this room, miners were admonished when they did not do their jobs properly. After 2015 it became what we can see, after an ideea of Ion Barb to represent The Last Supper."Ion Barbu, artist"As someone who worked for a long time in the mine, I think of the exceptional architecture of the underground galleries, of which a few people knew.If this wonderful heritage could be taken out to the surface and we give it a post-modern touch we will have something amazing from a visual point of view.""And here comes the connection that can be made with the people who worked underground and is now on the surface, so the extraordinary things of the darkness can be brought to light."Felipe Silva, No Limits NGO:"We work with children in the resolution of problems. When a child is climbing a certain route he has to learn step by step how to get to the top. It is the same in life. We need to learn step by step to achieve what we want to achieva.""One of the kids has found a job at a climbing room in Bucharest, which gives us great satisfaction."

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