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The Spanish capital of the sock

Pradoluengo, Montes de Oca, Burgos

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The Spanish capital of the sock

Curiosity · Pradoluengo, Montes de Oca, Burgos

Image of Pradoluengo, not of the place itself.

From wool to the beret and from the beret to the sock: when the last beret factory closed in 2001 the village had already converted to knitwear, and its workshops today produce close to a quarter of the socks consumed in Spain.

Photo: Smiles for the world (CC BY 2.0)

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