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The garlic soup of the pilgrims

Barrios de Colina, Montes de Oca, Burgos

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The garlic soup of the pilgrims

Food and drink · Barrios de Colina, Montes de Oca, Burgos

Image of Barrios de Colina, not of the place itself.

In the hamlet of San Juan de Ortega, the last stop before Burgos, the custom is kept up of receiving the walker with Castilian garlic soup: stale bread, garlic, paprika and broth, a winter dish born of scarcity.

Photo: Edmir Silvestre from Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brasil (CC BY 2.0)

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