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Decline of the Maragato muleteers

Santa Colomba de Somoza, Astorga, León

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Decline of the Maragato muleteers

Historical milestone · Santa Colomba de Somoza, Astorga, León

Image of Santa Colomba de Somoza, not of the place itself.

The arrival of the railway in Astorga, in the second half of the 19th century, marked the beginning of the end of a caste that between the 16th and 19th centuries carried salted fish from the Galician coasts inland and returned loaded with sausages and dry-farmed produce.

1866

Photo: campingsantacolomba (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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