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Museum of el Calzado de Brea de Aragón

Brea de Aragón, Aranda, Zaragoza

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Museum of el Calzado de Brea de Aragón

Monument · Brea de Aragón, Aranda, Zaragoza

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The Footwear Museum of Brea de Aragón, opened in 2002, occupies 600 square metres spread over two floors and tells the history of footwear and the shoemaking tradition of the Aranda region. The tour reviews the evolution of this craft from Celtiberian times to the present day, and also includes a space dedicated to the culture and traditions of Brea de Aragón and the region. According to local tradition, the village's first handmade sandals date from 1606, and during the 18th century Brea de Aragón came to produce more than half of all the tanned hides in the kingdom, the basis of a shoemaking industry that shaped the local economy for centuries.

Photo: Ecelan (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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