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High-altitude cured ham

Bronchales, Sierra de Albarracín, Teruel

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High-altitude cured ham

Food and drink · Bronchales, Sierra de Albarracín, Teruel

Image of Bronchales, not of the place itself.

At more than one thousand five hundred metres operate some of the ham drying sheds situated at the greatest altitude in Spain. The dry and prolonged cold of the sierra winter allows slow curing without resorting to climate-control installations.

Photo: Mabelcalabuig (CC BY-SA 3.0 es)

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