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Capital minera del plomo

Linares, Sierra Morena, Jaén

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Capital minera del plomo

Historical milestone · Linares, Sierra Morena, Jaén

Between the 1870s and the 1920s Linares was the world's leading lead producer, wealth that earned it the opening in 1910 of the second branch of the Banco de España in all of Spain, after the one in Madrid.

1870s-1920s / 1910

Photo: Tomás Arellano Bujaldón (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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