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The monastery's apothecary

Santo Domingo de Silos, Sierra de la Demanda, Burgos

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The monastery's apothecary

Curiosity · Santo Domingo de Silos, Sierra de la Demanda, Burgos

Image of Santo Domingo de Silos, not of the place itself.

The monastic pharmacy served the residents by means of retainers paid in grain or an annual fee. It preserves the distillation laboratory and the room of jars and botany books that fray Isidoro de Saracha assembled with his plant garden.

Photo: José Antonio Gil Martínez from Vigo, Spain (CC BY 2.0)

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