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The Fuggers, lessees of the mercury

Almadén, Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real

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The Fuggers, lessees of the mercury

Historical milestone · Almadén, Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real

Image of Almadén, not of the place itself.

Incorporated in perpetuity into the Crown of Castile in 1523, the quicksilver mines were leased to the German bankers Fugger, the Fúcares, who worked them during a good part of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries against the credits granted to the monarchy.

siglo XVI

Photo: Raimundo Pastor (CC BY-SA 3.0 es)

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