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Longaniza of Graus

Graus, La Ribagorza, Huesca

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Longaniza of Graus

Food and drink · Graus, La Ribagorza, Huesca

The longaniza de Graus, a sausage with at least 70% lean pork seasoned with pepper, thyme, oregano, clove, nutmeg and sweet wine, is stuffed into natural casing in a horseshoe shape from 20 to 70 centimetres long; there is a fresh variety, which must be cooked, and a cured one, which can be eaten raw, and it carries the C'Alial guarantee mark of the Government of Aragon. It is made by three butchers grouped in the Association of Longaniza de Graus Manufacturers, among them Casa Maella, founded in 1415 and the oldest in Aragon. Since 1992 Graus has celebrated the Day of the Longaniza every July, declared a Fiesta de Interés Turístico de Aragón (Festival of Tourist Interest of Aragon) in 2013, at which a five-hundred-metre longaniza is grilled over embers; in 1997 it entered the Guinness Book of Records as the longest in the world, at 505.47 metres.

Photo: El Mono Español (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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