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La seda nazarí de Bérchules

Bérchules, Alpujarra Granadina, Granada

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La seda nazarí de Bérchules

Historical milestone · Bérchules, Alpujarra Granadina, Granada

Image of Bérchules, not of the place itself.

Bérchules, of Mozarabic origin dating from the 8th century, was during the Nasrid period a silk-producing centre that came to rival the finest eastern silks; the Nasrid vizier Ibn al-Jatib mentions it as a possession of the Banu Hassan family.

Photo: Mirko Tobias Schäfer (CC BY 2.0)

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